Title: A Hopi Woman. Plate 411.
Artist: Edward S. Curtis (1868 -1952).
Medium: Sepia photogravure, 1905.
Published by E. S. Curtis.
Image size 15 3/8 x 11" (39 x 28 cm).

From copyright photographs by E.S. Curtis. Photogravure Soffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge, Mass.

Edward Sheriff Curtis published "The North American Indian" between 1907 and 1930. The twenty-volume series recorded the various Native American cultures spread across the country, although it also contained Euro-American biases which were typical of the time. Each of the descriptive volume were accompanied by a portfolio of large photogravure plates.

The Hopi people are indigenous to northeastern Arizona. They are also known as Pueblo Indians, which is a reference to the type of traditional settlements some Native Americans in the region constructed. Historically the Hopi were farmers and herders. Perhaps one of their mostly widely known traditions is the Snake Dance, preformed biannually in August. This ancient, sacred ceremony is believed to bring rain to the sun scorched desert they live upon.

Good condition, minor discoloration in the outer upper margin.