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Series Title: The North American Indian: being a series of Portfolios picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska

Portfolio I, Plate 26: A Chief of the Desert-Navaho

1904

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
published by

The University Press

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America
Medium
photogravure
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Presented by Mrs. James H. Hoyt, Elton Hoyt, II, and Mrs. Amasa Stone Mather in memory of James H. Hoyt 1995.203.21.26
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A vertically oriented photogravure depicts a Navaho man with a medium skin tone from the chest up. He turns slightly to our right, looking upward with his lips set in a firm line. He wears a light-colored cloth headband, and a thick, patterned blanket with light and dark stepped geometric bands is draped over his shoulders. He emerges from a dark, shadowy background.

Portfolio I, Plate 26: A Chief of the Desert-Navaho

1904

Edward S. Curtis, The University Press

(American, 1868–1952)
America

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