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MASKED DANCER COWICHAN Spectacular Copper Plate
MASKED DANCER COWICHAN Spectacular Copper Plate
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Description
EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 326 Masked Dancer - Cowichan, 1905. 15.3x10.9" image on 17.6x12.7" copper plate. Plate date 1913. From Portfolio 9, Puget Sound Tribes, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 326 / Masked Dancer - Cowichan / From Copyright Photograph 1912 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure John Andrew & Son.

One of Curtis's most compelling and dramatic photographs of Indian masked dancers.

Curtis wrote about this: "The dancer personates one of the mythic ancestors who descended from the sky. Note the huge, carved house-post at the right." In the copper plate negative, the carved post is to the left.
Condition
Very Good. Minor scratches/dents and ink residue spots on plate surface.
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MASKED DANCER COWICHAN Spectacular Copper Plate

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