Portraits of America

A family group--Noatak

1929·Source: loc·View original ↗·Public Domain
A family group--Noatak, 1929 (Library of Congress)
A family group--Noatak, 1929 (Library of Congress)
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1 photographic print. | Three Eskimos posed.


The photograph shows three Eskimos posed as a family group at Noatak in 1929. It was created by Edward S. Curtis.

No further information about the subjects, their relationships, or the circumstances of the photograph is available in the archive record. The location name Noatak is given, but nothing more is documented about the place or community at that time. What Curtis was doing in the area or how this image fit into his broader work is not stated in the record.

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