Lot 128
128
EDWARD S. CURTIS

Details
EDWARD S. CURTIS

The Piki Maker, Hopi

Orotone. 1906. Signed in gold ink on the image. 14 x 11in. In the original studio frame with Curtis studio and Home of the Curtis Indians labels on the reverse of the frame.
Literature
The North American Indian 1903-30, published in Portfolio 12, pl. 432; and Visions of a Vanishing Race, p. 221.

Lot Essay

Curtis wrote of this image: Piki is corn-bread baked in colored sheets of paper-like thinness. The batter is spread on the baking stone with the bare hand, and the quickly baked sheet is folded and laid on the basket at the baker's left.