Masked Dancers in Canoes - Qágyuhl (b) [Plate 362]
![Masked Dancers in Canoes - Qágyuhl (b) [Plate 362] by Edward Sheriff Curtis](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.artheonmuseum.org%2Fnga%2Fthumb%2Fmasked-dancers-in-canoes-qgyuhl-b-plate-362-nga-133021.webp&w=3840&q=75)
Medium
photogravure on cream wove paper
Dimensions
image: 28.4 x 38.4 cm (11 3/16 x 15 1/8 in.) sheet: 45 x 56 cm (17 11/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir
Accession Number
2004.163.5.32
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Edward Sheriff Curtis · 1868–1952
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) was born on February 19 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, into a struggling family led by his father, Reverend Asahel Curtis, a Civil War veteran and farmer, and mother Ellen Sheriff. Raised in poverty amid his father's postwar frailties, Curtis left school after sixth grade and apprenticed as a photographer in a St. Paul, Minnesota, studio at age seventeen in 1885. The...