His 20-volume masterwork was hailed as "the most ambitious enterprise in publishing since the production of the King James Bible"

Warrior.

Variant of The Shores of Nootka, 1915

Edward Curtis is known for documenting the last of America's tribes from 1906 to 1930 in an epic collection called The North American Indian.

Old Mother

As one of the major repositories of American photography, the Carter houses over 45,000 exhibition-quality prints that span the history of the medium, from one of the earliest daguerreotypes made in this country to inkjet prints being made today.

Mosquito-Hawk, Susbécha. Assiniboin. Born on the Missouri below Williston, North Dakota. When he was fourteen he followed a war-party, but gained no honors. On his next four expeditions he had as little success, but on the next he killed a Sioux. He fought against the Piegan, killing two, taking a scalp and counting a first coup. In another battle with the Piegan he killed one, counted coup, and took a scalp. He never fasted, and never has had a vision. He married at seventeen. -Volume 3…

Edward Curtis’

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