New Orleans Indians, Harlem, New York

© Chester Higgins

New Orleans Indians, Harlem, New York

Currently not on view

New Orleans Indians, Harlem, New York,

1990

Chester Higgins, born 1946, Fairhope, AL; active Alabama and New York
2021-184

Information

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
photographs, gelatin silver prints, documentary photography
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
regalia, men

The artist via Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 2021.

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