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Edward Sheriff Curtis

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1868-1952

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  1. The Rush Gatherer - Arikara by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    The Rush Gatherer - Arikara, 1908

    Photogravure

  2. Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho, 1904

    Photogravure

  3. Two Moons - Cheyenne by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Two Moons - Cheyenne

    Photogravure

  4. The Morning Attack by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    The Morning Attack

    Photogravure

  5. Red Whip - Atsina by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Red Whip - Atsina

    Photogravure

  6. Little Wolf - Cheyenne by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Little Wolf - Cheyenne

    Photogravure

  7. Invocation - Sioux by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Invocation - Sioux

    Photogravure

  8. Horse Capture - Atsina by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 1.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Horse Capture - Atsina

    Photogravure

  9. Hoop on the Forehead - Apsaroke by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Hoop on the Forehead - Apsaroke

    Photogravure

  10. Hastobiga, Navaho Medicine-Man by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Hastobiga, Navaho Medicine-Man

    Photogravure

  11. Getting Water - Apache by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Getting Water - Apache

    Photogravure

  12. Cheyenne Profile by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    Cheyenne Profile

    Photogravure

  13. A Home in the Mesquite - Chemehuevi by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    A Home in the Mesquite - Chemehuevi

    Photogravure

  14. A Chief of the Desert - Navaho by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Image 2.

    Edward Sheriff Curtis

    A Chief of the Desert - Navaho

    Photogravure

Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America’s finest photographers and ethnologists. The Curtis family moved to Port Orchard, Washington in 1887. When Curtis was 24, he started working as a studio portrait photographer in Seattle. He also experimented with landscape and mountaineering photographs on extended trips to Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. By 1895, Curtis began photographing Native Americans. He took many pictures of the Alaskan/Yukon Gold Rush of 1897 and was the official expedition photographer on E.H. Harriman’s Alaskan expedition of 1899. It was on this very expedition that Curtis discovered his passion for documenting Native peoples’ ways of life.

Edward S. Curtis devoted the next 30 years photographing and documenting over eighty, tribes west of the Mississippi, from the Mexican border to northern Alaska. His project won support from such prominent and powerful figures as President Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan. In 1930, he published The North American Indian, consisted of 20 volumes, each containing 75 hand-pressed photogravures and approximately 300 pages of text. Each volume was accompanied by a corresponding portfolio containing at least 36 photogravures.
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