Posted 4 years ago
ho2cultcha
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I also found this today at my friend's shop. This is an original Currier & Ives print of Yo-Semite Falls from 1865ish. Hand-colored and in amazing condition. I've seen these come up at auction with lots of stains and fading, but this one is almost pristine. Just yesterday, Lark Mason announced an auction of a lot of Currier & Ives pieces in a very large collection of early American prints.
ho2cultcha, Cool. :-)
Fascinating that they hyphenated the name Yosemite, but then some of its cognates are spelled with apostrophes and other marks that probably won't display correctly here (sorry):
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Yohhe'meti (Southern Miwok) or Yos.s.e'meti (Central Miwok) originally referred to the Indian tribe that lived in Yosemite Valley. Yosemite means literally “those who kill” (Yos, “to kill,” the modifier e, “one who,” and the plural suffix -meti). It was used by the surrounding Miwok tribes. The Yosemite people were referred to as killers by these surrounding tribes, who feared them. The Yosemite tribe, led by Chief Tenaya, were composed of renegades from multiple tribes, including Mono Paiute from the eastern Sierra. The Paiute were traditional enemies of the more-peaceful Miwok people.
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http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/origin_of_word_yosemite.html
thanks keramikos! as usual, you are a font of knowledge!