Hopi Towns. Woman with Child.
This is another of Vroman’s photographs that defies conventions. Where most images of Indian women with children imported a sentiment similar to the one in “Nursed the Little Hiawatha,” Vroman instead focuses on how the modern implements of the household intermingle with the basketry on the wall. The woman and child are out of focus, making the picture seem more about baking soda and basketry and the modernity of the people commonly thought of nostalgically as relics of the old western frontier.
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