Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race by Florence Graybill & Victor Boesen
folio. pp. xi, [5], 303. sepia-toned photo illustrations. hardcover. dw. (near fine - light wear to extremities of dust wrapper including some tears, stain to head of spine). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1976].
First Edition.
ISBN-10: 0690011628 / ISBN-13: 9780690011623
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From 1904 to 1930, Edward Sheriff Curtis sought out the vanishing Indian tribes with unwavering passion and dedication. He made it his life’s work to record their faces and their lifestyles before they disappeared forever, crushed by the ever-continuing colonization of the West by the white man. Now, Curtis’s daughter Florence has selected more than 175 of his most awe-inspiring photos and combined them with a moving and detailed biography of Curtis’s life and work. Along with presenting some of the most famous Indian figures in history—such as Chief Joseph and Geronimo—these pages capture Apache chiefs, Hopi weavers, a Wichita dancer, a Skokomish basketmaker, a Cheyenne child, Blackfoot cookery, Nunivak boys in a kayak, and many more unforgettable images.