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Edward S. Curtis’s
The North American Indian

portfolio 1 plate no. 8 Apache reaper - photogravure plate

Portfolio plate no. 8

Title

Apache reaper

Curtis Caption

Here the Apache woman is seen in her small wheatfield harvesting the grain with a hand sickle, the method now common to all Indians of the Southwest.

Creator

Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952

Physical Description

1 photogravure : brown ink ; 35 x 44 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son

Date of Original

1906

Source

The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.01, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1907), plate no. 8

Relation

Digital images of the plates supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, and mounted in American Memory. See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
Digital reproduction of the photomechanical print

Digital I.D.

cp01008

Rights

For educational, non-commercial use only. Written permission required for any reproduction beyond fair use. Credit: Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian," 2003.
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/

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