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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 24 A Hilltop Camp - Jicarilla, 1904. 11.4x15.8" image on 13.6x17.3" copper photogravure plate. Plate date 1907. From Portfolio 1, Apache & Navaho, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 24 / A Hilltop Camp - Jicarilla / From Copyright Photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure John Andrew & Son. Curtis technical skills as a photographer with lighting and printing was unsurpassed. This wizardry a hallmark of the greatest photographers such as Ansel Adams and Edward Weston allowed them then to use to these tools to enhance their vision. Curtis wrote: "The typical habitation of the Jicarillas is a tipi, or lodge, called kozhan, patterned after that of the Plains tribes. Formerly they hunted the buffalo, making excursions from their mountain homes to the plains and bringing back quantaties of prepared meat and large numbers of hides, which were fashioned into tents and used for many other purposes."