Tonovíge-Havasupai
Artist
Edward S. Curtis
(American, 1868 - 1954)
Date1907
MediumPhotogravure
Dimensionssheet: 21 3/4 x 18 in. (55.2 x 45.7 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Joseph Zimmerman
Object number2008.53.10
Collections
This portrait was made in winter while a party of Havasupai were encamped in the high country above their canon home. As a smowstorm was raging at the time, the woman's hair became dotted with flakes, as the picture reveals.