Drawing measures 8 3/4" x 7 3/4"
and a bit of irregularity to one long edge from where it was cut out from the album
It looks to me that our woman in magenta and orange is potting or tending to a plant
the Anaktuvuk Nunamiut began making Caribou hide masks--embellished with the fur of caribou
The rights to the image were later acquired by the Radio Corporation of America
1860s Gem Tintype Album, 28 + 2, with Sailors, Soldiers, Sisters, Wounded, From Jaffrey, NH Estate bocce ball Drawing measures 8 3/4" xThis is the first gem tintype album I've purchased, from a dealer who just pulled it out of an old estate in Jaffrey, NH. I do look at these sorts of albums, and do find the tiny ness of gem tintypes rather amazing, but usually, with one close up portrait of unknown person after another, they don't strike me as super compelling. (On my mantle, however, I have a single gem tintype of a man seated in a chair in a simple contemporary frame that is one of