Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Storm – Apache

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Storm – Apache
  • Before the Storm – Apache
Datec. 1910
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage (at open): 11 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (29.2 × 39.3 cm)
Sheet (at open): 11 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (29.2 × 39.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Endowment
Object number2020.125
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
105 Enron Orientation Gallery
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn 1906, Edward Sheriff Curtis embarked on a 30-year project to photograph the indigenous peoples of the United States and Alaska—an endeavor that eventually comprised 40,000 images of more than 80 Native American tribes. Because Curtis often directed and sometimes costumed his subjects to fit an idealized vision, his images are constructions of mythic Native Americans frozen in time. Still, Curtis’s photographs remain the most comprehensive Western representation of early 20th-century Native culture and thus have been a persistent shaper of the image of indigenous peoples in the popular imagination of non-Native Americans.
ProvenanceVictor F. Germack and Lori Shepard Germack, New York; purchased by MFAH, 2020.

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