Hopi Mother, plate 403, from the portfolio of large plates supplementing The North American Indian, Volume 12, The Hopi

Edward Sheriff Curtis, American, 1868 - 1952

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1921; published 1922

Photogravure on Japanese Gampi tissue paper

Overall: 11 1/4 × 15 3/16 in. (28.5 × 38.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Anonymous gift

176.3.4

Printer

Suffolk Engraving Company, Boston

Publisher

University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Printed, below image, lower left: HOPI MOTHER; printed, in script font: From Copyright Photograph 1921 by E.S. Curtis; printed, in script font, lower right: Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Boston

Course History

SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Winter 2015

Provenance

Anonymous donor; given to present collection, 1976.

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