Title

Drying whale meat-Hooper Bay, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis.

Caption

Drying whale meat-Hooper Bay, c1929. Eskimo with whale meat on poles, Hooper Bay, Alaska.

Date

1929

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A00_354

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

26,9Mb (977,6Kb) / 12,4in x 8,4in / 3730 x 2523 (300dpi)

Keywords

food people library fish color whale Alaska alaskan photography native seafood meat location century photograph thirties concept drying photo twenties B&W one person Eskimo metaphor Library of Congress curing dried fish Colour aquatic life hanging out to dry black & white black and white B W 1930s 1920s white and black 20th century TGN indigenous photograph united states indigenous people Edward Sheriff Curtis Curtis Edward Sheriff Congressional Library Heritage Art Edward S. Curtis Curtis Edward S. subsistence Hooper Bay Wade Hampton