Description
Book SynopsisIn 1906, J. P. Morgan commissioned Edward S. Curtis to produce a series of books depicting Native American life. Edward S. Curtis Portraits contains over 250 of the project’s beautiful and haunting portraits. “In Mr. Curtis we have both an artist and a trained observer, whose pictures are pictures, not merely photographs.” —President Theodore Roosevelt
Talented photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis set out on the project with the goal of becoming a successful portrait artist, but as he worked taking photographs of the “vanishing Indian,” he discovered a calling as an ethnographer and embarked on
a mission to document every aspect of traditional Native American culture before it disappeared forever. He considered the loss of Native American traditions a national tragedy and sacrificed his financial security, marriage, and even his health to pursue his mission.
Curtis’s highly expressive portr
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho.
II The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai
III The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin.
IV The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa.
V The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina.
VI The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho.
VII The Yakima. The Klickitat. The Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai.
VIII The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. The Umatilla. The Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes.
IX The Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa.
X The Kwakiutl.
XI The Nootka. The Haida.
XII The Hopi.
XIII The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. The Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath.
XIV The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts.
XV The Southern California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. The Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo.
XVI The Tiwa. The Keres.
XVII The Tewa. The Zuñi.
XVIII The Chipewyan. The Western Woods Cree. The Sarsi.
XIX The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The Southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote Cult.
XX The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik.
Index
