Edward S. Curtis collection [photographs] 1900-1921.

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Edward S. Curtis collection [photographs] 1900-1921.

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Document the Hopi Indian Reservation, 1900-1921, including daily Hopi life and ritual ceremonies.

31 photographic prints : b&w ; 4 x 5 in.

Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7341960

Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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Curtis, Edward Sheriff, 1868-1952

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Edward Sheriff Curtis, American photographer and ethnologist, was born near Whitewater, WI, in 1868 and grew up in Seattle, WA. Fascinated with the Indians and their way of life he embarked on lifelong career dedicated to presenting "the very spirit of the Indian peoples" in photographs, film, recordings and print. George Bird Grinnell, an authority on Indians, appointed him Official Photographer to the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899. Curtis' dream of a comprehensive written and photographic...