Early 1900's photography of North American Indians.
A selection of 88 sepia reproductions from the Curtis' The North American Indian, supplemental volume.
Photographer Edward S. Curtis was a prolific photographer and recorder of Native American culture. This is a collection of his most moving, cultural portraits.
Portraits from North American Indian Life
A narrative account of the pioneering photographer's life-risking effort to document a disappearing North American Indian nation offers insight into the danger and resolve behind his venture, his elevation to an impassioned advocate and the ...
... ambassadors , politicians , genwith clay - caked boots , men in buckskins , moccasins , skin- erals , and senators . ning knives in their belts , weather - beaten women in calico When Timberlake , her husband , committed suicide ...
The photographs and stories of Edward S Curtis, speak though time of a bygone age.
More than 50 pages of photographs, taken by the American photographer Edward S. Curtis in the early years of this century, complement the text.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
The work of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer looms large in the field of history, ethnology, and anthropology. No serious study of American Indian people can be...
Volume #12 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Hopi. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.