Qa'híla - Koprino [Plate 331]
![Qa'híla - Koprino [Plate 331] by Edward Sheriff Curtis](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/qahla-koprino-plate-331-nga-132989.webp)
Medium
photogravure on cream wove paper
Dimensions
image: 39 x 29 cm (15 3/8 x 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 56.4 x 45.2 cm (22 3/16 x 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir
Accession Number
2004.163.5.3
About the Artist
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) was born on February 19 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, into a struggling family led by his father, Reverend Asahel Curtis, a Civil War veteran and farmer, and mother Ellen Sheriff. Raised in poverty amid his father's postwar frailties, Curtis left school after sixth grade and apprenticed as a photographer in a St. Paul, Minnesota, studio at age seventeen in 1885. The...