Water Rite Purification, Cheyenne Animal Dance, 1927

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series Title

The North American Indian

Medium

photogravure

Dimensions

image: 39.1 × 29 cm (15 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.)

sheet: 55.9 × 45 cm (22 × 17 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the UBS Art Collection

Accession Number

2023.30.51

Artists / Makers

Edward Sheriff Curtis (artist) American, 1868 - 1952

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Inscription

upper left above image printed in black ink: Plate 662; lower left: WATER RITE PURIFICATION, CHEYENNE ANIMAL DANCE; lower center: From Copyright Photograph 1927 by E.S. Curtis; lower right: Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge, Mass.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 5; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW 7072

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 22 February 1993; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

UBS Art Collection