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The North American Indian Volume 20 - The Alaskan Eskimo, The Nunivak Eskimo of Hooper Bay, Eskimo of King island, Eskimo of Little Diomede island, Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales, The Kotzebue Eskimo, The Noatak, The Kobuk, The Selawik (Hardcover)
Edward S Curtis
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The North American Indian Volume 2 - The Pima, The Papago, The Qahatika, The Mohave, The Yuma, The Maricopa, The Walapai, Havasupai, The Apache Mohave, or Yavapai (Hardcover)
Edward S Curtis
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At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward
Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to
produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an
approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious,
he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional
Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. With
tireless personal commitment Curtis visited 80 American Indian
tribes from the Mexican border to the Bering Strait, gaining their
confidence through his patience and sensitivity. His work was
printed in 20 volumes between 1907 and 1930 as The North American
Indian, but with only 272 copies, originals became extremely rare.
This book gathers Curtis's entire American Indian portfolio into
one publication, offering renewed access to and appreciation of his
extraordinary achievement, which is as much a precious historical
document as a triumph of the photographic form. About the series
Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating
the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
1930 - With almost no fanfare Curtis published the final two
volumes of "The North American Indian." It has been estimated that
during the project Curtis took over 40,000 photographs and made
10,000 wax cylinder sound recordings of Indian speech and music.
About 200 sets of the works were printed and Curtis delivered 25
sets to J.P. Morgan as promised for partially financing the
project. The Morgan Company later sold 19 of those sets. The
Library of Congress has a set. October 19, 1952 - Edward Sheriff
Curtis died of a heart attack at the age of 84, in the home of his
daughter Beth. A seventy-six word obituary in the New York Times
mentions simply that Curtis had been an authority on Indian history
and that he had also been known as a photographer.
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