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Launching the Whale Boat - Cape Prince of Wales

Artist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952)

Date1930

MediumPhotogravure

ClassificationsPrint

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.28.708

Accession number 2005.28.708

DescriptionPlate 707

On View

Not on view

Provenance(William Reese Company, New Haven, CT); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2005

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Whaling Crew - Cape Prince of Wales

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1930

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Cape Prince of Wales Man

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1930

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Launching the Boat - Diomede Island

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1930

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Snowdon and Liyth from Liyn Liydaw, Wales

Russell Smith

1851

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The Captured Whale

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1915

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Whale Ceremonial - Clayoquot

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1915

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Diomede Boat Crew, Asiatic Shore in Distance

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1930

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Map to Illustrate the Route of Prince Maximilian of Wied in the Interior of North America from Boston to the Upper Missouri etc. in 1832, 33 & 34

William Thorn

1839-1843

Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Herbert Ogden Waters

1954-1955

Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

Outset, Launching, Progression

Emmi Whitehorse

2015

Photography by Alan Wiener

Kathy Butterly

2008

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Sigesh - Apache

Edward Sheriff Curtis

1903