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The Pigeon-blind - Yokuts
Creator
Edward S. CurtisAmerican Photographer · 1868–1952
All works by this person →A poor reverend's son growing up in Minnesota farm country, the teenage Edward Curtis built his first camera from scratch. The Curtis family moved to the Washington territory, and around 1892 the newly married Curtis bought his first photographic studio in Seattle for 150 borrowed dollars. It quickly became *the* place to be photographed. He later settled in Los Angeles, where he operated photogra
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- 1924
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 4ff68297-9754-471b-acf7-45178c2c1a5d
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View of a blind made of reeds and grasses, used to hide a hunter while trapping birds. Two arched reeds are tied with clumps of grass to create a curtain, behind which a hunter would hide.
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