GA'ASKIDI Navaho Portrait 1904 Photogravure
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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Ga'askidi - Navaho, 1904. 7.3x5.3" photogravure on 8.3x6" tissue paper cornered on 12.3x9.5" Holland Van Gelder paper. Print date 1907. From Volume 1, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho, of The North American Indian. Printed on print recto: Ga'askidi - Navaho / From Copyright Photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis.
This lot features a more famous variant bust view of the Ga'askidi, the representation of the Navaho God of Harvest. Here, instead of the spruce boughs as in lot 5099, the figure wears a fur collar around his neck.
Curtis wrote about this figure: "This is the personation of the Navaho God of Harvest. The name signifies "Hunchback." He is represented always in a stooping posture, carrying a staff to aid him in supporting a burden of corn, bean, pumpkin, and other seeds he carries upon his back. The personation is conventional, rather than literal, in intent."
See comments in lot 5098 on the making of this series.
This lot features a more famous variant bust view of the Ga'askidi, the representation of the Navaho God of Harvest. Here, instead of the spruce boughs as in lot 5099, the figure wears a fur collar around his neck.
Curtis wrote about this figure: "This is the personation of the Navaho God of Harvest. The name signifies "Hunchback." He is represented always in a stooping posture, carrying a staff to aid him in supporting a burden of corn, bean, pumpkin, and other seeds he carries upon his back. The personation is conventional, rather than literal, in intent."
See comments in lot 5098 on the making of this series.
Condition
Excellent. Minor corner wear. Margins of Holland Van Gelder mount show slight tissue transfer browning from original page tissue cover.
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GA'ASKIDI Navaho Portrait 1904 Photogravure
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