Trucha Tafoya, Apache

Artist John K. Rose (American (born Canada), 1849-1932)

Artist Benjamin "Bennie" Sanderson Hopkins (American (born Canada), 1859-1915)

Date1900

DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. (236 x 190mm)

MediumPlatinum print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineLouise and Stanley Levison Fund

Object number

2002.2

Not on View

DescriptionOne vintage platinum photograph with commercial inscription written in white lower left: 433 Trucha Tafoya, Apache | copyright 1900 Rose and Hopkins | Denver One vintage platinum photograph with commercial inscription written in white lower left: 433 Trucha Tafoya, Apache | copyright 1900 Rose and Hopkins | Denver

Label TextJohn Rose and Bennie Hopkins ran a successful photography studio in Denver from 1886 to 1901. During the Festival of Mountain and Plain, Native Americans either came on their own or were invited to their studio to be photographed. This festival, held annually from 1895 through 1912 (and continuing today in a different form) was a weeklong celebration of parades, contests, balls, and ceremonies. A delegation of more than 100 Plains Indians set up tipis in City Park, and held ceremonies, dances, mock battles, and sporting events. This striking portrait shows Trucha Tafoya, who would be an Apache chief by 1907.Published Referencescf. William Gostzmann, The First Americans (Washington, D.C.: Starwood Publishing, 1991): 118 (incorrect information) cf. Paula R. Fleming and Judith Luskey, The North American Indians in Early Photographs (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1986). cf. The Denver City Directories, 1876 to 1903 (searched by Denver Public Library, Historic Photography Collection.) cf. "B.S. Hopkins Dies After 24 Years in Denver Field" [obituary] The Denver Post, March 26, 1915 (picture). cf. Ian West, Portraits of Native Americans (Smithmark, N.Y., 1995): 77. cf. Robert G. Lewis, Native Land: Photographs from the Robert G. Lewis Collection (Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2001).Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The American West: Photographs of a New Frontier, January 15-May 15, 2016.