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Edward Curtis Photogravure Nakoaktok #2300734

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Edward Curtis Photogravure Nakoaktok #2300734
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Beautiful & mystical mythical Native American Indian characters.
Edward S. Curtis photgravure.</em></td>
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AW-12492
Edward Sheriff Curtis photogravure
"Kotsuis & Nakoaktok"
Volume 10
Plate 336
Full page 22 1/2" wide by 17 1/2" high
Circa 1960
$1895
These two masked performers are doing the Winter dance and represent huge mythical birds. Seritors in the house of the man eating monster Pahpaqalanohsini. The mandibles are operated by strings.
These Indians lived in Canada's western mainland and on Vancouver Islands shores.
Full page measures 17 1/2" wide by 22 1/2" high
Image only measures 15 1/2 " high by 11 3/4" wide
Printed by John Andrews & Son from a copyright 1914 photograph by E.S. Curtis.
All of the photogravures are from one New York collection and are printed on tweed weave paper. They are in pristine museum quality condition. All have plate numbers, title, copyright and publishers signature line.

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the United States photographing and recording native Americans at ceremonial occasions and at work. Curtis was sponsored by Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan. He made orotone photographs with golden overtones created on glass and powered with gold dust and banana oil.

This is a photogravure of an original photograph made in the 1914. A photogravure is a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. The process is rarely used today due to the costs involved, but it produces prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a lithograph. In essence, the production of a photogravure consists of three steps: taking ...
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<tr><td>Condition:excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1960</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:John Andrew's & Son</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:17.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:22.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Edward Curtis Photogravure Nakoaktok</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Native American </td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:tweed weave paper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:photogravure</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Bakersfield, Ca.</td></tr>
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