Curtis, Edward S.
American (1868-1952)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Washo Baskets
BOOK TITLE: "Portfolio 15, The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska," plate 541

1896-1924 / print 1924 by Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge, Mass.
photogravure print on Van Gelder Holland paper
28.6 x 39.3 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 26452
72:0001:0032

NON-GEH NUMBER: Plate 541

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Davis, Barbara A. --Edward S. Curtis; The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher.-- San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1985. p. 195.//
Adam, Hans Christian, essay. --Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios.-- Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1997. p. 586.//
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 433.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Plate 541" "Washo Baskets" "From Copyright Photograph 1924 by E.S. Curtis" "Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge, Mass."

NOTES: Catalogued 1/98, DZ. Dated "1924" in --The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher--. "Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographs and documents ever major native American tribe, west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes." ["Edward Sheriff Curtis-Biography," www.curtis-collection.com/curtis.html]

SUBJECT: artifact, baskets