Object number1986.42.212
Untitled
DateNd
Artist
Currently Unidentified
CultureAmerican
MediumAlbumen Print
DimensionsImage: 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in. (14 x 9.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (26 x 18.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (26 x 18.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Winston and Jeffrey Adler Collection of 19th Century Photography
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
InscribedOn recto, by unidentified hand, lower right margin in pencil: Anon. Untitled.
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPhotography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024DescriptionImage of a indigenous man, woman, and child posed together for a group portrait in front of a photographer's landscape backdrop. The man sits wearing an elaborate feathered headdress running all the way to the ground, he also wears a mix of native and western clothes as exemplified by his necktie, and holds a fan in his right hand. The woman stands to the right of the man and behind the child. She wears her hair in two braids, earrings, as well as a hair pipe necklace/breastplate. The child stands resting her arm on the man's leg and wears an elk tooth dress as well as a hair pipe necklace/breastplate.
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