Portfolio plate no. 186
Title
Painted lodges - Piegan
Curtis Caption
Symbolically painted tipis are frequently observed among the Piegan. Sometimes incidents in the owner's career, especially as a warrior, are depicted, but more often as in this picture, the painting is conventional, and imitative of a tipi seen by the owner in a vision.
Creator
Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952
Physical Description
1 photogravure : brown ink ; 36 x 44 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son
Date of Original
1900
Source
The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.06, The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1911), plate no. 186
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.
cp06003
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/
