Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) - The Vanishing Race - Navaho (PDC1878-CO) 2023-12-15 slight weft wear

slight weft wear

25" leather bandwidth

she left her home in Paris in 1968 to move to San Francisco

This kachina is from the Layne collection

Signed "Marie + Santana" on the bottom

Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) - The Vanishing Race - Navaho (PDC1878-CO) 2023-12-15 slight weft wear14. 25" x 17. 5" framed. Acquired from a private collection in California. Plate 1. Published in "The North American Indian (1907 1930) v. 01, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho" E. S. Curtis comment: The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn in their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so