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Watching the Dancers   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952)  wikidata:Q433128
 
Edward S. Curtis
Alternative names
Birth name: Edward Sheriff Curtis; Edward Curtis; E. S. Curtis; E.S. Curtis; Edward Sherriff Curtis
Description American photographer, anthropologist, explorer, film director, screenwriter and ethnologist
Date of birth/death 16 February 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 19 October 1952 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Whitewater Edit this at Wikidata Los Angeles
Work period 1896 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
United States; Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q433128
Restored by W.carter
Title
Watching the Dancers
Description
English: "Watching the Dancers – From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis – Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Boston"

Four young Hopi girls have their backs to the camera. Wearing traditional holiday dress they are watching dancers from a nearby rooftop. The adobe structure is simple, yet sturdy. — This is a restored version. The process is described in steps in the upload history, starting with a jpeg converted from the tif file of the original.
Description by Edward Curtis: "A group of girls on the topmost roof of Walpi Pueblo, looking down into the plaza." – "The Hopi reservation was established in 1882, but until the beginning of the twentieth century the people were practically independent of governmental authority. Since that time official supervision, assistance, and sometimes blundering interference in harmless religious and personal customs, has become more and more effective, and the result is the gradual abandonment of the old order. In 1906 not a maid at the East mesa kept her hair in the picturesque squash-blossom whorls indicative of the unmarried state."[1]
LOC Summary: Four Hopi women on the topmost roof of Walpi Pueblo looking down at the plaza.
Four women wrapped in heavy blankets, wearing traditional Hopi dresses and hairstyles watching dancers, probably at some event or festival in Walpi Pueblo, Arizona, US. The women's hairstyle is called "squash blossom whorl" (the squash flower is a symbol of fertility), and it is the traditional hairstyle for unmarried girls in the Hopi tribe.

In another photo, Three Hopi women at top of adobe steps, the women notice the photographer and look at him.
Date 1906
date QS:P571,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium 1 photographic print : Photogravure
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Accession number
CALL NUMBER
Illus. in E77.C97a [Rare Book RR]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZ62-80169 (b&w film copy neg.)
DIGITAL ID
(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b27163 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b27163
CONTROL #
2002708847
Notes
Photoprint copyrighted by Edward S. Curtis(w)
Illus. in: Edward S. Curtis, North American Indian, v. 12, pl. 405.
Ref. copy may be in P&P - E77.C98 Suppl. P&P.
This record contains unverified data from caption card, with subsequent revisions.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3b27163.
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Four young Hopi women on the topmost roof of Walpi Pueblo looking down at the plaza, by Edward S. Curtis 1906 - restored

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current10:30, 10 February 2024Thumbnail for version as of 10:30, 10 February 20242,559 × 3,450 (4.78 MB)W.cartertweaked some shadows in the paper, as per prev. image note
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