Kumeyaay Diegueño, Capitan Grande Reservation, 1924 by Edward S. Curtis

$900.00

Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper, blind stamp lower right corner

Date: 1924

Measurements: Image 11₁₆ × 15₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹₁₆ × 21 inches

Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ

Photogravure titled Digueno of Capitan Grande by Edward S. Curtis, printed in 1924 on Dutch Van Gelder paper with blind stamp lower right corner. Documents a member of the Kumeyaay people, known in Curtis's era as the Diegueño of the Capitan Grande reservation in present-day San Diego County, California. The Kumeyaay's ancestral territory encompassed much of present-day San Diego County and northern Baja California, and their community at Capitan Grande along the San Diego River was among the most significant Kumeyaay settlements of the early 20th century. California indigenous portraits from The North American Indian bearing the blind stamp on Dutch Van Gelder paper are genuinely scarce. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.

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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper, blind stamp lower right corner

Date: 1924

Measurements: Image 11₁₆ × 15₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹₁₆ × 21 inches

Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ

Photogravure titled Digueno of Capitan Grande by Edward S. Curtis, printed in 1924 on Dutch Van Gelder paper with blind stamp lower right corner. Documents a member of the Kumeyaay people, known in Curtis's era as the Diegueño of the Capitan Grande reservation in present-day San Diego County, California. The Kumeyaay's ancestral territory encompassed much of present-day San Diego County and northern Baja California, and their community at Capitan Grande along the San Diego River was among the most significant Kumeyaay settlements of the early 20th century. California indigenous portraits from The North American Indian bearing the blind stamp on Dutch Van Gelder paper are genuinely scarce. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.

We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand