United States, New Mexico, Zuni
1879
Albumen print
Image: 7 × 9" (17.8 × 22.9 cm) | Framed: 22 × 23" (55.9 × 58.4 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
This 1879 albumen print by John K. Hillers documents a Zuni shrine with Ahayuda figures, photographed under the direction of John Wesley Powell and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology. Hillers documented Indigenous settlements and ceremonial sites across New Mexico during this period, producing some of the earliest photographic records of Zuni religious and cultural material. The image belongs to the early photographic record of Zuni ceremonial life in the Southwest.
The composition records the Ahayuda figures within a stone setting, with the albumen process giving the image its characteristic warm nineteenth-century tonal quality. The subject relates to sacred Zuni material and is presented here as a documentary record without elaboration beyond what the photograph itself shows. The print is in collector condition with private Santa Fe provenance.
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United States, New Mexico, Zuni
1879
Albumen print
Image: 7 × 9" (17.8 × 22.9 cm) | Framed: 22 × 23" (55.9 × 58.4 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
This 1879 albumen print by John K. Hillers documents a Zuni shrine with Ahayuda figures, photographed under the direction of John Wesley Powell and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology. Hillers documented Indigenous settlements and ceremonial sites across New Mexico during this period, producing some of the earliest photographic records of Zuni religious and cultural material. The image belongs to the early photographic record of Zuni ceremonial life in the Southwest.
The composition records the Ahayuda figures within a stone setting, with the albumen process giving the image its characteristic warm nineteenth-century tonal quality. The subject relates to sacred Zuni material and is presented here as a documentary record without elaboration beyond what the photograph itself shows. The print is in collector condition with private Santa Fe provenance.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
