Caption
The Samoan village, on the Midway, House and people from Samoa at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 96', photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold, Chicago, photographer: HD Higinbotham, cliché maker: anonymous, 1893, Charles Dudley Arnold, HD Higinbotham, photographer, cliché maker, North America, Illinois, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 132 mm x width 190 mm, world fair, world exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, A large thatched structure on stilts with a steep, densely layered roof occupies the center of the image, with wooden poles visible beneath it and a woven or textured skirt around the base; several people stand and sit in front of and beneath the structure wearing skirts and garments made of natural fibers and leafy materials, some with decorative collars or sashes, and a few are seated on the ground on grassy patches or low mats; to the left a timber-framed building with rectangular windows and a corrugated awning is partially visible, and to the right there is a flagpole with a flag and a wooden fence with trees behind it; the foreground shows a dirt or gravel path edged by stones leading toward the structure.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B01_446
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Rights managed
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40.3Mb (8.8Mb) / 14.5in x 10.8in / 4349 x 3242 (300dpi)