Let the Tricky Black Bear Do His Dance - Edward Sherriff Curtis Art Print
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In Let the Tricky Black Bear Do His Dance, Edward S. Curtis catches a masked figure in bearskin mid-howl, snout tipped skyward, jaw cracked open on a cry this sepia photograph can only imagine. Black bear hide slides off the shoulders in heavy folds. It drags like a shadow too heavy to lift.
Curtis spent seasons among the Kwakwaka’wakw of Vancouver Island in the 1910s, people he called Kwakiutl in The North American Indian. Canada had outlawed the potlatch in 1885. Indigenous winter ceremonial life on the Pacific Northwest Coast carried on, in smoky houses and before his lens. Two wooden chests sit roped behind the figure. Gifts once traveled in boxes like these.
Pictorialist photography melts the scene into burnt umber and smoke-gray haze. Grit glints like spilled teeth. One pale claw hooks the ground. As vintage photography and Native American art, this print carries a banned winter into a modern room, where a man wearing a bear still roars at a sky of ash.
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1. Vertical
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2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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