Portfolio plate no. 300
Title
Chief's daughter - Skokomish
Curtis Caption
Pride of birth played a prominent role in the life of the Pacific Coast Indians. Society was rigidly divided into nobility, common people, and slaves taken in war. No woman of common birth could afford the luxury of the fur robe worn by the subject of the picture.
Creator
Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952
Physical Description
1 photogravure : brown ink ; 45 x 34 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son
Date of Original
1912
Source
The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.09, Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1913), plate no. 300
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.
cp09008
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/
