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Qahatika Girl, The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 1907

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QAHATIKA GIRL Portfolio 2, plate no. 56 THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN BY EDWARD S. CURTIS Considered by art collectors as extremely desirable among all his his works! Image size 15.5 x 11 3/4 inches, Dutch “Van Gelder" paper, Excellent condition, this is an original photogravure from the 20 volume set. Excellent condition, framed to museum standards. This is an original photogravure from the 20 volume set , The North American Indian. It is not a modern re-strike. Free Shipping Continental US The Qahatika (or Kohatk) were a Native American tribe of the Southwestern United States. They were apparently a subtribe of the Tohono O'Odham, and lived in the vicinity of present-day Quijotoa, Arizona. According to Edward Sheriff Curtis, the Qahatika belonged to Pima group of tribes and lived in five villages "in the heart of the desert south of the Gila River",[2] about forty miles from the Pima reservation. A legend said that after the Pima suffered defeat in a war with Apache, the tribe fled and split. One splinter of the tribe, the ancestors of Qahatika, went into the barren desert and settled there in separation from other Pimas.[3] The Qahatika, according to Curtis, managed to find land suitable for growing wheat. Their methode of "dry farming" relied exclusively on winter rainfall: the soil near their villages was capable of retaining winter moisture for a whole season, and a few winter rains guaranteed a fair crop in summer. The Qahatika seen by Curtis were "almost identical in appearance" to Pima and Papago. They retained the Pima art of basket weaving and developed their own tradition of pottery.[5] Their houses were built almost exclusively of dried giant cactus carcasses. In the summer of 1900, Curtis made his first independent, self-financed trip into the field. For this important trip, he chose to photograph the Hopi, Navajo, and Apache of the Southwest. From 1900 to 1925 Curtis would study and photograph the various tribes of the Southwest more frequently than those of any other area. He ultimately devoted more volumes of The North American Indian to the Southwest than to any other region. The Indians of the Southwest lived primarily in Arizona and New Mexico, although their presence extended into parts of Texas, California and northern Mexico. Because of the scarcity of native vegetation and game and the sporadic availability of water, the tribal peoples of the Southwest, by necessity, became largely dependent on agriculture for their subsistence. As their reliance on agriculture grew, the Indians of the Southwest adopted an increasingly village-oriented culture. In fact, some of their villages and pueblos have been inhabited continuously for hundred of years, making them among the oldest permanent settlements still in use in North America today. One of the reasons Curtis was drawn to Southwest Indian tribes initially was that they afforded him an unusual glimpse into pre-white Indian life. In the early 1900s, many people still lived in traditional ways, strongly tied to their ancient culture and religious traditions. Curtis was also fascinated by the strong relationship Southwest Indians had with their ancestral land, which in both its physical and metaphysical manifestations was at the center of their history, tradition, and beliefs. Virtually all practices revolved around it. Curtis’s immersion in the landscape and cultures of the Southwest Indian is clearly evident in the photographs he made in the region. These images, and the written records of the Southwest that Curtis produced over several decades, mirror his deep understanding of the unique geo-cultural interplay of people and place. Over one hundred years ago, Edward Sheriff Curtis began a thirty-year odyssey to photograph and document the lives and traditions of the Native peoples of North America. This monumental project, The North American Indian, was hailed by The New York Herald as “the most gigantic undertaking since the making of the King James edition of the Bible.” Edward Sheriff Curtis not only attempted, but actually achieved the impossible. With The North American Indian, he created an irreplaceable photographic and ethnographic record of more than eighty of North America’s native nations – a record first published between 1907 and 1930, which after decades of obscurity in rare book rooms and private collections, has experienced its renaissance. Comprising twenty volumes, twenty portfolios, thousands of pages of text, and more than twenty- two hundred photogravures, The North American Indian remains not only an unparalleled artistic and historic achievement, but a watershed in publishing history. Chistopher Cardozo
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    Edward Curtis (1868 - 1952, American)
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    Height: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)Width: 11.75 in (29.85 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2623215172022

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