APSAROKE (CROW) MEDICINE TIPI 1905 Copper Plate
EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 141 Apsaroke Medicine Tipi, 1905. 15.8x11.8" image on 17.9x13.2" copper plate. Plate date 1909. From Portfolio 4, The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 141 / Apsaroke Medicine Tipi / From Copyright Photograph 1905 by E.S. Curtis / John Andrew & Son.
Curtis wrote about this: "The Apsaroke medicine-men usually painted their lodges according to the visions received while fasting and supplicating their spirits. This tipi was painted dark red, with various symbols on the covering. No man would dare so to decorate a tipi without having received his instructions in revelation from the spirits."
Condition Report: Very Good. Minor wear, tarnish, ink residue spots, steel facing spots, mild scratches and abrasions.
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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 141 Apsaroke Medicine Tipi, 1905. 15.8x11.8" image on 17.9x13.2" copper plate. Plate date 1909. From Portfolio 4, The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 141 / Apsaroke Medicine Tipi / From Copyright Photograph 1905 by E.S. Curtis / John Andrew & Son.
Curtis wrote about this: "The Apsaroke medicine-men usually painted their lodges according to the visions received while fasting and supplicating their spirits. This tipi was painted dark red, with various symbols on the covering. No man would dare so to decorate a tipi without having received his instructions in revelation from the spirits."
Condition Report: Very Good. Minor wear, tarnish, ink residue spots, steel facing spots, mild scratches and abrasions.
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