Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952) Nine Photogravures from The North American Indian , Volume 14

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Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952)

Nine Photogravures from The North American Indian, Volume 14, published 1924, including Plate 472, Mitat-Wailaki; Plate 473, Old "Ukiah" - Pomo; Plate 477, On the Shores of Clear Lake; Plate 482, A Pomo Girl; two of Plate 486, A Coast Pomo Girl; Plate 487, Fishing Camp, Lake Pomo; Plate 495, Southern Miwok; and Plate 504, Chukchansi Yokuts Type. Photogravures on Japon vellum except for 472, 477, 482, and 486, which are on Japanese tissue, image sizes to 15 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. (38.7 x 28.9 cm),several matted, all unframed.
Condition: Vellum sheets with deckled edges, 473 and 504 are light-struck.

N.B. Edward Sheriff Curtis is best known for his herculean effort to document the North American Indian through photographs and recordings of song and speech. As the western United States was developed, he endeavored to record the vanishing cultures of the land's original inhabitants, creating a body of work that at the time defined the country's popular vision of Native American culture. Curtis began his fieldwork in 1906 with the support of financier J. Pierpont Morgan, and by 1930 he had documented more than eighty tribes and made over 40,000 photographs.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

Sheet sizes to 21 5/8 x 17 3/4 in. (55.0 x 45.0 cm). 472: gently light-struck; 473: light-struck; 482: small tear in tissue l.l., gently light-struck; 486: tissue detached from backing at u.r.; 487: light-struck; 504: light-struck, rippling to sheet.


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