North American Indian, by Edward S. Curtis : portfolio of photographs by Edward S. Curtis, 1907-1930.

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North American Indian, by Edward S. Curtis : portfolio of photographs by Edward S. Curtis, 1907-1930.

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Vol. 1 includes two TLS from Curtis to Dr. James Douglas and "A word of appreciate of Mr. John Pierpont Morgan, by Edward S. Curtis, read at the Director's Meeting of the North American Indian, April 16, 1913." Numbered edition 117/500. Plate 150 incorrectly numbered 159. Two different plates are numbered 400.

20 v. : ill. (chiefly ports.) + 772 folio photogravure plates.

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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...

Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art

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