**Originally Listed At $300**

Paul Coze (French / Serbian-American, 1903-1974). (1) "Corn Dance Tesuque NM" black & white photo - title and "P. Coze" handwritten on verso, n.d.; (2) "Old Oraibi" black & white photo - handwritten informative description and Paul Coze stamp on verso, n.d.; (3) untitled photo print of water carrier, possibily from a book, n.d. A wonderful trio of photographs by Paul Coze who was a remarkable artist-as-ethnographer. First is "Corn Dance Tesuque NM" which features a group of katsina dancers in traditional dress, several with wonderful masks. Traditionally, these dancers perform during the spring to promote the growth of corn - a line of Corn Dancers faces a line of female companions who create music with sheep scapulae and rasps along with gourds. Next is a photo of Old Oraibi - a Hopi village comprised of mud and stone dwellings - located on the Third Mesa of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. The dwellings are clustered together; stairs and ladders were used to reach the upper floors. Size (Old Orabi): 8" L x 10.125" W (20.3 cm x 25.7 cm)

On the verso of the photo, Coze indicated that Old Oraibi was erected about 1370 CE and described it as the "oldest inhabited town in USA," but today it is believed to have begun between 900 and 1000 CE. Finally, the third photo depicts an indigenous woman carrying a blackware jar on her head with a floral scarf framing her visage and cascading over her shoulders and torso. She stands before an adobe dwelling with a ladder leaning against one of the walls.

Paul Coze was an anthropologist, artist, and writer who was most notable as a French authority on Native Americans. Between 1928 and 1934, he made four trips across western Canada collecting ethnographic objects for the Musee d'Ethnographie in Paris and the Heye Foundation in New York. He settled in Phoenix, Arizona in 1951 and created nine major pieces of public art in the city, most with Native American themes.

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Photos are hinged within white/cream mattes fitted with transparent overlays. Corn Dance photo has title and "P. Coze" handwritten on verso. Old Oraibi photo has handwritten informative description and Paul Coze stamp on verso. Each photo was priced at $350 by previous gallery. Minor age wear to mattes. Scuffs to Oraibi photo; otherwise photos are in very nice condition save normal age wear.