Portfolio plate no. 284
Title
Wishham maid
Curtis Caption
Clad in her deerskin dress of the plains and her basketry hat of the coast, the girl pauses on the grim lava rocks above the Dalles, looking out across the thundering rapids, perhaps observing the activities after friends in the village Wasko.
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
1909
Source
The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.08, The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1911), plate no. 284
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.
cp08029
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/
