[A Piikani Man Dressed in Traditional Attire]

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[A Piikani Man Dressed in Traditional Attire]

Creator

Edward S. Curtis

American Photographer · 1868–1952

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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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Date
1900
Medium
Gravure
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Young Native American man in jacket with beadwork, wearing tall headpieces, white dots painted across forehead and cheeks and nose holding feather shield in foreground center

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