The Offering - San Ildefonso, plate 586, from the portfolio of large plates supplementing The North American Indian, Volume 17: The Tiwa. The Zuni.
Edward Sheriff Curtis, American, 1868 - 1952
1925; published 1926
Photogravure on Japanese Gampi tissue paper
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.1
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: THE OFFERING - SAN ILDEFONSO; printed, in script font: From Copyright Photograph 1926 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
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Winter 2023
Provenance
Collected by Glover Street Hastings III, (1864-1948), West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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