Beginning in the 1890s, Edward C. Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs of eighty Native American tribal groups, many of which were published ...
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Beginning in the 1890s, Edward C. Curtis took more than 40,000 photographs of eighty Native American tribal groups, many of which were published between 1907 and 1930 in his twenty-volume masterwork, The North American Indian. This unique series of miniature books showcases Curtis's most striking photographs -- including a number of rare images that have never before been published. Great Plains captures Curtis's most indelible images of the Piegan, Sioux, Apsaroke, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Ogalala, and other Plains peoples -- including warriors on horseback, teepee villages, and other iconic portraits and tableaux. Hidden Faces focuses on the strange and wondrous ceremonial masks and costumes used by certain tribal groups -- especially the Navaho peoples of the Southwest and the Kwakiutl of British Columbia. Each volume features fifty rich sepia plates reproduced in state-of-the-art quadratone, plus Curtis's own ethnographic notes on his subjects -- making these affordable minibooks a must for Curtis fans and anyone who loves the American West.
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