Artwork Page for Plate 639: Oksoyapiw-Blackfoot

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Plate 639: Oksoyapiw-Blackfoot

1926

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
Culture
America
Medium
glass interpositive plate
Measurements
Overall: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Terence and Joyce Isakov 2022.294
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

This portrait shows Okwoyapiw whose name in English translated to “Raw-eater Old-man.”

Description

Born around 1850, Okwoyapiw was around 76 years old when Curtis photographed him. A member of the Blackfeet Nation, he was one of Curtis’s principal sources for information about that tribe’s culture and customs. The national is one of the ten largest tribes in the United States. Today, many of its members live on a reservation in northwest Montana that was established by treaty in 1855.
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Plate 639: Oksoyapiw-Blackfoot

1926

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
America

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