Portfolio plate no. 43
Title
Burden-bearer - Pima
Curtis Caption
This illustration shows the typical burden basket of the several Piman tribes of southern Arizona, called kiho in the Piman language. Their mythology relates that once the kiho was an animate being, but owing to disobedience of divine laws when the people emerged from the under-world, it became inanimate, and has since been carried on the backs of women.
Creator
Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952
Physical Description
1 photogravure : brown ink ; 46 x 34 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son
Date of Original
1907
Source
The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.02, The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1908), plate no. 43
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.
cp02004
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/
