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Sigesh - Apache

Artist (1868 - 1952)
Date1903
MediumPhotogravure
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.28.6
Accession number 2005.28.6
DescriptionPlate 6
On View
Not on view
Provenance(William Reese Company, New Haven, CT); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2005
Label TextBetween 1907 and 1930, Edward S. Curtis photographed hundreds of Native Americans from tribes across the United States. Curtis’s stated goal was documentary: “to catalogue how Indians lived prior to contact with the white man,” yet he found his subjects living primarily on reservations. His romantic, pictorial style and sepia-toned printing convey nostalgia for the past, which appealed to audiences of the time. Despite the staged nature of some of his photographs, Curtis’s work remains an important record of individuals such as Sigesh.