Harmon Percy Marble -, eight silver gelatin photographs depicting Native American cultural activities and sites, ca

First Time At Auction** Harmon Percy Marble (American, 1870-1945), eight silver gelatin photographs depicting Native American cultural activities and sites, ca. 1911 to 1925 CE. A lot of eight silver gelatin photographs depicting various Native American scenes that demonstrate Percy's ethnographic intent, including several depicting Hopi Kachina dancers, one depicting a man cleaning a deer in Taos, a street scene in a Hopi village, the Hopi snake dance ceremony, a natural formation of eroded sandstone known as Baby Rocks on the Navajo reservation, the Hope Butterfly Dance, and a man standing in front of a row of suspended curing animal hides. Marble was a prolific photographer who was especially interested in depicting Native American subjects. He took hundreds of photos of Navajo, Menominee, Hopi, and Sioux peoples. Size: photos measure 5" L x 7" W (12.7 cm x 17.8 cm) An accompanying label states in part, "Harmon Percy Marble was a prolific Native American photographer (and a mayor of Las Vegas). Born in Nebraska in 1870, Marble owned a newspaper, sold it, and went to work for the government Indian Service in 1911. His assignments took him to the Navajo Reservation; he worked on t

Date

1870

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

750 × 536 pixels

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