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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper
Date: 1923
Measurements: Image 11⁷⁄₁₆ × 15⁹⁄₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹⁵⁄₁₆ × 21⁷⁄₈ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ
Named portrait of Sam Ewing, a Yurok subject, from Curtis's 1923 documentation of California's northern coastal peoples in The North American Indian. The Yurok people of the lower Klamath River and Pacific Coast of present-day Humboldt and Del Norte counties are the largest federally recognized tribe in California, with a culture deeply rooted in the salmon runs of the Klamath and the rich resources of the northern California coast. By the early 1920s, when Curtis worked in Yurok territory, the community had endured decades of dispossession and cultural pressure, and his portraits of individual Yurok men and women carry a weight and dignity that reflects both his subjects' resilience and his mature photographic vision. Named California indigenous portraits from The North American Indian are among the scarcer categories of Curtis photogravure. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.
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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper
Date: 1923
Measurements: Image 11⁷⁄₁₆ × 15⁹⁄₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹⁵⁄₁₆ × 21⁷⁄₈ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ
Named portrait of Sam Ewing, a Yurok subject, from Curtis's 1923 documentation of California's northern coastal peoples in The North American Indian. The Yurok people of the lower Klamath River and Pacific Coast of present-day Humboldt and Del Norte counties are the largest federally recognized tribe in California, with a culture deeply rooted in the salmon runs of the Klamath and the rich resources of the northern California coast. By the early 1920s, when Curtis worked in Yurok territory, the community had endured decades of dispossession and cultural pressure, and his portraits of individual Yurok men and women carry a weight and dignity that reflects both his subjects' resilience and his mature photographic vision. Named California indigenous portraits from The North American Indian are among the scarcer categories of Curtis photogravure. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand