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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 the Navajo Reservation, with the Sioux tribes and with the Southern Pueblos. He even owned a cigar store in Long Beach, California. While Marble's images lack the technical quality of Edward Curtis, his work is uncontrived and shows instead the actual reality of life in Indian villages and plains, unadorned, and unromanticized. As such they have profound anthropological and even spiritual value."

Provenance: ex-Denenberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA

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