"Ku-ra-tu"

"Ku-ra-tu"

Ku-ra-tu; Indians of North America Arizona; Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer; Women; Portrait photographs; Kai-Vav-It Indians; Stereographs; Jarvis, J. F. (John Fillis), 1849-1931, publisher; Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902; Thompson, A. H. (Almon Harris), 1839-1906; Indians of the Colorado Valley

Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Full length portrait of a Kai Vav It woman standing in front of a large boulder wearing a fringed hide dress, with her proper right arm crossed over her waist.

"Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 8 Kai-vav-its. A tribe of Pai Utes, living on the Kai-bab Plateau, near the Grand Canon of the Colorado, in northern Arizona. Ku-ra-tu. Photographed by Hillers."
Copyright 1874 by J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C.
Published by J.F. Jarvis, 479 Pa. Avenue, Washington, D.C.
"U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West. By J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson."

Gift of R.C. Waterson, 1875.

The American Antiquarian Society has two copies. One copy the gift of R.C. Waterson, and sold by H. Ropes & Co. The second copy published by J.F. Jarvis, Washington, D.C.

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer

Graphic Arts Photos Native American

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Jarvis, J. F. (John Fillis), 1849-1931

1874