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[A Kwakiutl Head Hunter Dressed for a Kominaka Dance]
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1910–1914
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- f1a696c9-1d27-46bb-825e-d863b2c1c6d5
Kwakiutl Native American man on edge of forest in cedar bark cape and thick rope around neck from which three skulls hang
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