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Cheyenne Warriors

Artist (1868 - 1952)
Date1905
MediumPhotogravure
Dimensionsmat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
mat window: 17 1/2 × 12 5/8 in. (44.5 × 32.1 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.28.215
Accession number 2005.28.215
DescriptionPlate 215
On View
Not on view
Provenance(William Reese Company, New Haven, CT); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2005
Label TextPhotographs by Edward S. Curtis represent ideals and imagery meant to create a timeless vision of Native American culture. Although modern amenities and American expansion had already irrevocably altered the Indian way of life, Curtis went to great pains to create images of Native Americans posing in traditional clothing they had long since put away.