Ute, Rocky Mountain region
1870s
Carte de visite, albumen print on card
Height approx. 4 in. (10.2 cm), width approx. 2½ in. (6.4 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, AZ
This carte de visite published by The Art Gallery of Denver, Colorado depicts a Ute chief in a formal studio pose wearing a hat, blanket, earrings, and decorated boots, produced within the active commercial photography market for Native subjects that developed across the Rocky Mountain region in the post Civil War decades. Carte de visite photographs were small mounted portraits widely collected and exchanged during the nineteenth century, and the format made images of Native leaders and sitters portable, collectible, and commercially circulated. The Denver studio attribution places this image within the early commercial photographic record of Native American subjects in the Rocky Mountain region.
The specific Ute band or individual is not identified in the available information, and the regional attribution should remain general. As an identified Ute subject published by a named Denver studio, the card carries greater documentary specificity than anonymous ethnographic views, and the studio dress and formal pose reflect the conventions of the period's commercial portrait photography. From a private collection in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Ute, Rocky Mountain region
1870s
Carte de visite, albumen print on card
Height approx. 4 in. (10.2 cm), width approx. 2½ in. (6.4 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, AZ
This carte de visite published by The Art Gallery of Denver, Colorado depicts a Ute chief in a formal studio pose wearing a hat, blanket, earrings, and decorated boots, produced within the active commercial photography market for Native subjects that developed across the Rocky Mountain region in the post Civil War decades. Carte de visite photographs were small mounted portraits widely collected and exchanged during the nineteenth century, and the format made images of Native leaders and sitters portable, collectible, and commercially circulated. The Denver studio attribution places this image within the early commercial photographic record of Native American subjects in the Rocky Mountain region.
The specific Ute band or individual is not identified in the available information, and the regional attribution should remain general. As an identified Ute subject published by a named Denver studio, the card carries greater documentary specificity than anonymous ethnographic views, and the studio dress and formal pose reflect the conventions of the period's commercial portrait photography. From a private collection in Phoenix, Arizona.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
