United States, Arizona, Hopi, Oraibi
1898
Cabinet card photograph
Height 5 × Width 8" (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, Arizona
This 1898 cabinet card photograph by Ben Wittick is titled in the image One Evening in Oraibi, Moqui Indian Village, Arizona. The photograph shows a Hopi woman with children seated beside stone architecture at Oraibi. Wittick worked from Gallup, New Mexico, and his photographs form part of the late nineteenth-century visual record of Native communities in the Southwest.
The image combines portraiture, domestic setting, and architectural context within a single carefully composed view. The printed title, copyright date, and photographer's mark are important parts of the card's original presentation. As a Hopi subject from Oraibi, the photograph is described with clear cultural and geographic specificity.
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United States, Arizona, Hopi, Oraibi
1898
Cabinet card photograph
Height 5 × Width 8" (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Prescott, Arizona
This 1898 cabinet card photograph by Ben Wittick is titled in the image One Evening in Oraibi, Moqui Indian Village, Arizona. The photograph shows a Hopi woman with children seated beside stone architecture at Oraibi. Wittick worked from Gallup, New Mexico, and his photographs form part of the late nineteenth-century visual record of Native communities in the Southwest.
The image combines portraiture, domestic setting, and architectural context within a single carefully composed view. The printed title, copyright date, and photographer's mark are important parts of the card's original presentation. As a Hopi subject from Oraibi, the photograph is described with clear cultural and geographic specificity.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
