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Edward S. Curtis(1868-1952)Women of the Desert, Navajo
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Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
Women of the Desert, Navajo, 1906
Gelatin silver print, double-mounted, notation 'X2070-06' in the negative; signed in ink on the secondary mount; copyright credit reproduction limitation label affixed to the mount verso.
5 3/4 x 7 5/8in (14.6 x 19.3cm)
primary mount 6 1/4 x 7 7/8in (15.8 x 20cm)
secondary mount 11 x 12 1/2in (28 x 31.7cm)
Gelatin silver print, double-mounted, notation 'X2070-06' in the negative; signed in ink on the secondary mount; copyright credit reproduction limitation label affixed to the mount verso.
5 3/4 x 7 5/8in (14.6 x 19.3cm)
primary mount 6 1/4 x 7 7/8in (15.8 x 20cm)
secondary mount 11 x 12 1/2in (28 x 31.7cm)
Footnotes
Literature
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, the Complete Portfolios, Taschen, 1997, Vol. I, p. 63
The Navajo women are, for the greater part, the owners of the flocks and invariably, with the children, the herders. They are so thoroughly at home on their scrubby ponies that they seem a part of them and probably excel all other Indians as horsewomen.
EDWARD S. CURTIS
