Sharing my favorite images from the early days of photography...
Title: Hupa Purses and Money
Date: 1923
Location: U.S.
Photographer: Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952)
Process: photogravure
Note: Located in the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation (northeastern Humboldt County), the Hupa refer to themselves as Natinixwe or Natinook-wa, which means "People of the Place Where the Trails Return". They are among the only California tribes that were not forced to leave their homeland.
Photographer and ethnologist Edward Sheriff Curtis documented the American West and Native American people. His most famous images include "The Mussel Gatherer," " Princess Angeline," and " The Clam Digger ".
Source and information: Museum of Photographic Arts
