2020 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 12
12
Edward S. Curtis (1868 – 1952)
The Piki Maker
orotone
10 × 8 inches
signed lower right
VERSO
Original studio label with title and description
“The principal food of the Hopi is corn. This the women prepare in many ways, the most important being a wafer like bread called piki, which is made from a thin batter spread quickly with the hand upon a hot stone. This picture shows the Hopi woman at a large baking stone, which is a large flat slab of soapstone with a small fire beneath it.”