Portfolio plate no. 599
Title
Offering at the waterfall - Nambe
Curtis Caption
Feather offerings are deposited in numerous shrines, buried in the earth near the pueblo, and placed in springs, streams, and lakes, for the purpose of winning the favor of the cloud-gods.
Creator
Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952
Physical Description
1 photogravure : brown ink ; 35 x 44 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Cambridge, Mass. by Suffolk Engraving Co.
Date of Original
1925
Source
The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.17, The Tewa. The Zuñi ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1926), plate no. 599
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.
cp17020
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/
