Plate 31 Nesjaja Hatali Navajo 1903 Copper Plate
EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 31 Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho, 1903. 15.25x11.25" on 17.5x13" copper plate. Plate date 1907. From Portfolio 1, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 31/Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho / From Copyright Photograph 1903 by E.S. Curtis/ Photogravure John Andrew and Son
Curtis wrote about this: "A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Canon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied - one in Canon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant."
Condition Report: Very Good. Minor scratches, tarnish, dents, abrasions, small dark spots, and ink residue throughout plate surface.
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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 31 Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho, 1903. 15.25x11.25" on 17.5x13" copper plate. Plate date 1907. From Portfolio 1, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 31/Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho / From Copyright Photograph 1903 by E.S. Curtis/ Photogravure John Andrew and Son
Curtis wrote about this: "A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Canon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied - one in Canon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant."
Condition Report: Very Good. Minor scratches, tarnish, dents, abrasions, small dark spots, and ink residue throughout plate surface.
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