Albumen print
Image height 7 in / 17.8 cm
Image width 9 in / 22.9 cm
Framed height 22 in / 55.9 cm
Framed width 23 in / 58.4 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
This 1879 albumen print by John K. Hillers shows a Zuni shrine with Ahayuda figures. Hillers photographed Indigenous settlements and sites in New Mexico under the direction of John Wesley Powell and the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology. The image belongs to the early photographic record of Zuni religious and cultural material in the Southwest.
The photograph should be described with particular care because the subject relates to sacred Zuni material. The composition records the figures within a stone setting, with the albumen process giving the image its warm nineteenth-century tonal quality. As a Zuni subject by Hillers, the work belongs in the Southwest region and should avoid promotional language or unnecessary elaboration beyond the documented subject.
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Albumen print
Image height 7 in / 17.8 cm
Image width 9 in / 22.9 cm
Framed height 22 in / 55.9 cm
Framed width 23 in / 58.4 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
This 1879 albumen print by John K. Hillers shows a Zuni shrine with Ahayuda figures. Hillers photographed Indigenous settlements and sites in New Mexico under the direction of John Wesley Powell and the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology. The image belongs to the early photographic record of Zuni religious and cultural material in the Southwest.
The photograph should be described with particular care because the subject relates to sacred Zuni material. The composition records the figures within a stone setting, with the albumen process giving the image its warm nineteenth-century tonal quality. As a Zuni subject by Hillers, the work belongs in the Southwest region and should avoid promotional language or unnecessary elaboration beyond the documented subject.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
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