**Originally Listed At $300**

Paul Coze (French/Serbian-American, 1903-1974). Gelatin Silver Prints. (1) "Niman - Walpi" n.d. Stamped with "NGS #4 - From Paul Coze / Credit: Mrs. R. A. Hall / U. S. - INDIANS / Niman - Walpi. / April 1957 / REC'D APR 8 1957" on verso. (2) "Adam Trujillo Luhan Family at the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico" n.d. Title handwritten and "PHOTO BY PAUL COZE" stamped on verso. (3) Woman in Alley, n.d. A fine trio of black-and-white photographs by Paul Coze, displaying scenes of Native American daily life of the mid-20th century that grant the viewer a peak into historical ethnography. The smallest photograph presents a barefoot woman standing in a pueblo alley, facing the camera as another woman leans slightly out the window to her left. The next photograph documents the Niman Kachina ceremony at Walpi, showing a procession in which dozens of natives are adorned in elaborate costumes of plumage, masks, and tunics. Size of largest (Niman and Luhan Family the same): 9.2" W x 7.5" H (23.4 cm x 19 cm) Size of largest with matte (Niman): 15" W x 16.2" H (38.1 cm x 41.1 cm)

The third photograph presents the family of Adam Trujillo Luhan at the pueblo in Taos, New Mexico in the midst of a discussion with two children sitting on rungs of a ladder to the right, while their father stands below them with one hand on his hip as he addresses their veiled mother to the left.

Paul Coze was an anthropologist, artist, and writer that 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 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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All are fit with a matte and protective film. "Niman - Walpi" is stamped with "NGS #4 - From Paul Coze / Credit: Mrs. R. A. Hall / U. S. - INDIANS / Niman - Walpi. / April 1957 / REC'D APR 8 1957" on verso. "Adam Trujillo Luhan Family at the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico," has title handwritten and "PHOTO BY PAUL COZE" stamped on verso. All have a few light wrinkles and minor scratches and blemishes in areas, but imagery is still very clear. Small scuff marks to mattes that do not affect imagery. Photographs in overall good condition.