"Ku-ra-tu and Mu-pates"

"Ku-ra-tu and Mu-pates"

Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Full length portrait of Kai Vav Its Ku-ra-tu and Mu-pates. Ku-ra-tu leans on a large boulder and Mu-pates leans against her. Both wear fringed hide clothing.

"Indians of the Colorado Valley. No. 10 Kai-vav-its. A tribe of Pai Utes, living on the Kai-bab Plateau, near the Grand Canon of the Colorado, in northern Arizona. Ku-ra-tu and Mu-Pates. Photographed by Hillers."
Copyright 1874 by J.W. Powell, Washington, D.C.
Sold by H. Ropes & Co. 323 Broadway, New York.
"U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River of the West. By J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson."

Gift of R.C. Waterson, 1875.

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925, photographer

Graphic Arts Photos Native American

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H. Ropes & Co.

1874