ARC 1176.041, Invocation (Sioux)

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Record ID: 
219499
Accession number: 
ARC 1176.041
Photographer: 
Edward S. Curtis
Title: 
Invocation (Sioux)
Summary: 

Full-length portrait of an unidentified man standing in a wide open space, his hand raised to the sky; he wears a loincloth and a feather in his hair (Sioux).

Created: 
ca. 1907
Printed/Manufactured: 
San Francisco : Edward H. Kemp, ca. 1907-1910
Description: 
1 lantern slide : photograph on glass, hand colored ; 3 1/4 x 4 inches (lantern slide format)
Inscriptions/Markings: 
Oval white sticker with red border with number 4 adhered to slide at lower left.
Notes: 

Title from E.S. Curtis's The North American Indian.
Forms part of a collection of lantern slides by Curtis (ARC 1176).
In cardboard frame printed with the name of the manufacturer: Edward H. Kemp, San Francisco / Lantern Slide Specialist.

Bibliography: 
Image published in: Edward S. Curtis. The North American Indian (1907-1930), volume 3 (1908), plate no. 109, title: "Invocation -- Sioux"; copyright: "From Copyright Photograph 1907 by E.S. Curtis".<br>NAA MS 2010-28 National Anthropological Archives, Series 9.1, Edward Curtis negative log books, volume 1, page 114 ("Ogalala Sioux 1907"), negative number 2508: Invocation.
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