Fishing Camp - Skokomish
Date1912
Maker
Edward S. Curtis
American, 1868-1952
Label TextCurtis' artful staging of this scene reflects the aesthetics that he inherited from landscape traditions in painting and photography. Valuable cultural information-canoes, cedar bark clothing and the mat lodge-is a fixed within the scenic homeland of the Skokomish whose reservation was established in the 1855 Treaty of Point-No-Point.
Object number86.159
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, S'abadeb - The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists, Oct. 23, 2008 - Jan.11, 2009.
Published ReferencesBrotherton, Barbara, with contributions by Christy Christodoulides and Lydia Sigo. Double Exposure: Edward S. Curtis, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, Will Wilson. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2018; pp. 47-48, reproduced fig. 1 [not in exhibition].Credit LineGift of John H. Hauberg
Dimensions11 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (30.2 x 39.3 cm)
MediumPhotogravure on vellum (paper)
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