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Edward S.Curtis Nakoaktok's Daughter #2300730

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Edward S.Curtis Nakoaktok's Daughter #2300730
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Incredible Native American photogravures by Edward Sheriff Curtis.
Nakoaktok Chief's Daughter</em></td>
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AW-12491
Edward Sheriff Curtis
"Nakoaktok Chief's daughter"
Circa 1960
$1895.00
Full page 17 1/2" wide by 22 1/2" high
Volume 10
Plate 334
When the head chief of the Nakoaktok holds a Potlatch (a ceremonial distribution of property to all of the people)his eldest daughter is enthroned symbolically supported on the heads of her slaves.
Edward Sheriff Curtis photogravure
Full page measures 17 1/2" wide by 22 1/2" high
Image only measures 15 1/2 " high ny 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 the picture; producing a printing plate of the ...
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#: 12491</td>
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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 Andrews & Son</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:22.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:17.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Edward S.Curtis Nakoaktok's Daughter</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Native American Indian</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:tweed woven paper</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:photogravure</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Bakersfield, Ca.</td></tr>
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