Sandstone Vessels from Santa Catalina Island

Item

A sepia photogravure showing two carved sandstone bowls resting on a stone surface against a cracked stone wall, with a long cylindrical stone pestle lying in front of them.
Title
Sandstone Vessels from Santa Catalina Island
Creator
Edward S. Curtis
Date
1924
Type
Photogravure
Source/Repository
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Rights
Public domain, no permission required
What It Reveals
Roughly 7,000 years of Tongva presence and craft on Catalina Island, while poster frames it as an empty scenic backdrop
Whose Perspective Is Centered
Not Tongva created. Curtis was a non-Native ethnographer
Category of Exclusion Addressed
Displacement, erased Indigenous history
Paired Poster
A 1930s travel poster showing a white mission-style church with a bell tower beside a tiled plaza lined with palm trees. A steamship passes in the harbor beyond, with mountains rising behind it.Catalina: Now see Santa Catalina, the Scenic Riviera of the U.S.A. ... yet only a short delightful voyage from Los Angeles
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Contextual Materials
Site pages
Inside & Outside the Frame
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