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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper
Date: 1924
Measurements: Image 11⁷⁄₁₆ × 15⁹⁄₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹⁵⁄₁₆ × 21⁷⁄₈ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ
Photogravure titled Otila, Maidu by Edward S. Curtis, printed in 1924 on Dutch Van Gelder paper, from his documentation of California's indigenous peoples in The North American Indian. The Maidu people of the Sierra Nevada foothills and Sacramento Valley of present-day northern California were among the most populous of California's indigenous groups before colonization, and by the time Curtis documented them in the 1920s their numbers had been severely reduced by the catastrophic impact of the Gold Rush era and its aftermath. Curtis's portraits of Maidu subjects are among the less frequently encountered examples of his California work, and Otila, a named individual portrait, represents a particularly personal and direct image from this body of work. Printed on Dutch Van Gelder paper with the rich tonal depth characteristic of Curtis's finest photogravures, this is a distinguished piece of both California Native American cultural heritage and American photographic history. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.
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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper
Date: 1924
Measurements: Image 11⁷⁄₁₆ × 15⁹⁄₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹⁵⁄₁₆ × 21⁷⁄₈ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ
Photogravure titled Otila, Maidu by Edward S. Curtis, printed in 1924 on Dutch Van Gelder paper, from his documentation of California's indigenous peoples in The North American Indian. The Maidu people of the Sierra Nevada foothills and Sacramento Valley of present-day northern California were among the most populous of California's indigenous groups before colonization, and by the time Curtis documented them in the 1920s their numbers had been severely reduced by the catastrophic impact of the Gold Rush era and its aftermath. Curtis's portraits of Maidu subjects are among the less frequently encountered examples of his California work, and Otila, a named individual portrait, represents a particularly personal and direct image from this body of work. Printed on Dutch Van Gelder paper with the rich tonal depth characteristic of Curtis's finest photogravures, this is a distinguished piece of both California Native American cultural heritage and American photographic history. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand