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Edward S. Curtis — Portfolio XVI, Plate 568: Acoma Water Carriers
Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio XVI, Plate 568: Acoma Water Carriers

1904

Portrays the vital relationship between the Acoma people and their desert environment, rendered with the subtle gradations and permanence that made photogravure Curtis's preferred medium.

Medium
photogravure

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Edward S. Curtis, Portfolio XVI, Plate 568: Acoma Water Carriers, 1904

Portrays the vital relationship between the Acoma people and their desert environment, rendered with the subtle gradations and permanence that made photogravure Curtis's preferred medium.

Medium
photogravure
Year
1904
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, Figure, Documentary, American, Native American, Early 20th Century, Historical, Portrait, Photogravure, Ethnographic

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago