United States, New Mexico
Circa 1879–1880
Albumen print on period mount
Height 16.5 × Width 20.5" (41.9 × 52.1 cm) including archival frame
Provenance: Larry Frank, Taos, New Mexico
This albumen print by John K. Hillers shows the Pueblo settlement of Pillipi, New Mexico, photographed from an elevated vantage point that places the architecture within its wider landform and valley setting. Hillers worked as a photographer for the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology, producing some of the earliest photographic records of Pueblo villages, archaeological sites, and Southwestern landscapes. The image presents the settlement with figures visible in the foreground, grounding the documentary character of the work.
The albumen process and period mount place the photograph firmly within nineteenth-century survey-era documentation. Hillers's work is closely associated with the photographic study of Zuni, Hopi, and other Pueblo communities during the early years of institutional ethnographic fieldwork in the Southwest. The Larry Frank provenance adds further collector context to the object's history.
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United States, New Mexico
Circa 1879–1880
Albumen print on period mount
Height 16.5 × Width 20.5" (41.9 × 52.1 cm) including archival frame
Provenance: Larry Frank, Taos, New Mexico
This albumen print by John K. Hillers shows the Pueblo settlement of Pillipi, New Mexico, photographed from an elevated vantage point that places the architecture within its wider landform and valley setting. Hillers worked as a photographer for the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology, producing some of the earliest photographic records of Pueblo villages, archaeological sites, and Southwestern landscapes. The image presents the settlement with figures visible in the foreground, grounding the documentary character of the work.
The albumen process and period mount place the photograph firmly within nineteenth-century survey-era documentation. Hillers's work is closely associated with the photographic study of Zuni, Hopi, and other Pueblo communities during the early years of institutional ethnographic fieldwork in the Southwest. The Larry Frank provenance adds further collector context to the object's history.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
