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The Vanishing Race

1904

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
Culture
America
Medium
orotone in original Curtis Studio frame
Measurements
Image: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.); Framed: 40 x 47.5 cm (15 3/4 x 18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann 2019.27
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

This image is the frontispiece of Edward Curtis’s multivolume study of The North American Indian.

Description

Curtis wrote that this scene of Navajo riding off into the distance showed “that the Indians as a race, already shorn in their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future.” The artist’s signature image is produced here as an orotone, a positive gelatin silver print on glass that has been backed with gold pigment or leaf.
Horizontally oriented muted gold-toned hazy photograph of people riding on horseback away from us through sparse, spindly brush towards towering dark mountains. The riders make a single-file line vertically down the center of the photograph with another single rider to their and our left. The figures are so hazy, only dark cloaks wrapping round their shoulders are discernable.

The Vanishing Race

1904

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
America

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