A Hesquiat Maiden

• Main Author: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
• Other Authors: John Andrew & Son
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1915
• Subjects: Indians of North America > British Columbia; Nootka Indians; Nootka girls; Hesquiaht Indians; Hesquiaht girls; Indian; haida
• Online Access: http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16118coll16,316

In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The eleventh volume, featuring the Nootka, Clayoquot and Haida tribes, was published in 1916. "The girl wears the cedar-bark ornaments that are tied to the hair of virgins on the fifth morning of their puberty ceremony, as described in Volume XI, page 42. The fact that the girl who posed for this picture was the prospective mother of an illegitimate child caused considerable amusement to the native onlookers and to herself." Harriet Bullitt Master images photographed at 300 ppi, 48 bit color, and saved as TIFF files. Adobe Photoshop used to crop, resize and convert to JPEG format. Master image file size: 306,759,040 bytes. Published No Copyright - United States This item was published prior to 1923 and is in the public domain. No known copyright restrictions identified by the library at the time of scanning in March 2018.