Edward Sheriff Curtis : visions of the first Americans / [photographs selected and essay by] Don Gulbrandsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

Contributor:

Gulbrandsen, Don.

Standardized Title:

North American Indian. Selections. 2006

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952--Photograph collections.

Curtis, Edward S.

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. North American Indian--Selections.

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

Indians of North America--Portraits.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Pictorial works.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

Photograph collections.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Portraits.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

256 pages : chiefly illustrations, color map, portraits ; 31 x 43 cm

Place of Publication:

Edison, NJ : Chartwell Books ; London : Compendium, 2006.

Summary:

Edward Curtis was one of the great photographers of the American West, who recorded graphically the face of the American Indian at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This is a large-format selection of his most attractive.

Contents:

I. The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho.

II. The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa.

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. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai.

VIII. The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. 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. 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. Southern California Shoshoneans. The Deigueänos. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo.

XVI. The Tiwa. The Keres.

XVII. The Tewa. The Zuäni.

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.

Notes:

"Over 300 photographs by Edward Sheriff Curtis from his inspirational work on the North American Indian"-- Paper wrapper.

ISBN:

9780785821144

0785821147

OCLC:

76910393