Title

The wokas season-Klamath, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis.

Caption

The wokas season-Klamath, c1923. Photograph shows a Klamath woman in a dugout canoe resting in a field of wokas, or great yellow water lilies (nymphaea polysepala) used as food, probably in the Klamath Basin area of Oregon.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A01_347

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

66,9Mb (1,5Mb) / 18,6in x 14,0in / 5587 x 4185 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation nature portrait water female women woman people library historical flower flowers plant plants country geography color Oregon lily lilies waterlily waterlilies native Native American location canoe century photograph water lily water lilies concept photo twenties B&W American Indian dugout canoe Library of Congress United States of America Colour lilium water transport black & white black and white B W 1920s white and black North American Indian 20th century American history historic America USA geographical feature TGN indigenous photograph united states indigenous people Edward Sheriff Curtis Curtis Edward Sheriff Congressional Library Heritage Art Edward S. Curtis Curtis Edward S. subsistence Klamath Basin waterscape Klamath