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New Orleans Indians, Harlem, New York,
1990

Chester Higgins, born 1946, Fairhope, AL; active Alabama and New York

2021-184

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Title

New Orleans Indians, Harlem, New York

Dates

1990

Maker

Chester Higgins

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 17.3 × 26 cm (6 13/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 21.5 × 27.7 cm (8 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art

Object Number

2021-184

Signatures

Signed on verso: Chester Higgins

Inscription

Annotated on verso: Native Americans - New Orleans, LA. The White tribe. This tribe is heavily mixed with African-Americans whose slave runaway foreparents found sanctuary among the Native Americans. Artist stamp on verso, center Stamp on verso: PHOTO RESEARCHERS, INC. | NYC | 9L 4086 In graphite on verso, lower right: CH1-00228-SP In ink on verso [sideways]: 8478

Culture

American

Type

gelatin silver prints, photographs, documentary photography

Techniques

gelatin silver process

Subject

men, regalia

The artist via Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 2021.

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Chester Higgins (born 1946, Fairhope, AL; active Alabama and New York), New Orleans Indians, Harlem, New York, 1990. Gelatin silver print; 17.3 × 26 cm (image), 21.5 × 27.7 cm (sheet). Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art (2021-184) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/138434

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