An Orotone or Gold Tone is just one of many types of photographic prints which can be produced from a negative.  A Gold Tone is created by printing the positive image on a glass plate pre-coated with silver gelatin emulsion. Following exposure and development, the emulsion is coated with banana oil infused with gold-colored pigment, yielding a gold-tone image.  After producing hundreds of Gold Tone images of American Indians, Edward Curtis developed his own variation – the ‘Curt-Tone’ – using techniques that he claimed were superior. 

 

Douglas Kenyon created the following collection of Curtis prints with a technique he developed that archivally replicates Curtis's Gold Tone images with the same luminosity Curtis himself had achieved.