After Curtis: Hopi Dancer

I've been inspired some of the Edward Curtis photographs that we have at the gallery I'm working at (not to mention inspired by living in the Southwest in general) so I decided to do a series of studies.
Sometimes it's nice to have the source material and just take off running, and sometimes it's hard to let myself depart from what I'm looking at and let the drawing be spontaneous. This was easier in most of the previous drawings that were created straight from my head and hand through a process of feeling it out and leaving the history.

Wolffs-Carbon and White Charcoal pencil on gray Rives BFK paper, 22" x 30"