Fishing Camp - Skokomish

1912

American, 1868-1952

Curtis' 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.

Photogravure on vellum (paper)

11 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (30.2 x 39.3 cm)

Gift of John H. Hauberg

86.159

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

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].

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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