“APACHE”

1906

Curtis noted that this image might as well be titled “Life Primeval” for he believed that this is how the Apache might have pictured themselves in the time before significant European incursions. It was made at a point on the Black River in Arizona, where a dark, still pool breaks into the beauty of small rapids. While Curtis did not originally produce this image as a goldtone, Curtis Centennial Editions chose to do so not only because of its beauty but also because it so fully exploits the brilliance and luminosity found only in the Goldtone process.