1. PAZOLA WASHTE tribute to edward s. curtis
Pima land
Pazola Washte is the name given to Edward Curtis
by Sioux Chief Red Hawk. It means ‘Pretty Butte’.
Pima Land

2. “HOMEWARD” –National Photographic Society Gold Medal Winner - 1898
Homeward – 1898 winner of National Photographic Society. grand prize and a gold medal.
“HOMEWARD” –National Photographic Society Gold Medal Winner

3. Canyon de Chelly – Navaho - 1904

4. 1903
NALIN
APACHE
Nalin_Apache

5. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS
BOUGHT A LARGE 14” X 17”
VIEW CAMERA IN 1890 AND A YEAR LATER OPENED A STUDIO IN SEATTLE WITH HIS PARTNER, RASMUS ROTHI FOR $150
SELF PORTRAIT

6. HOPI WOMAN 1900 THE PIKI MAKER Piki is cornbread baked
in colored sheets of
paper-like thinness.
The batter is spread
on the baking stone
with the bare hand, and
the quickly baked sheet
is folded and laid on the
basket at the baker's left.
PIKI MAKER HOPI WOMAN 1900 : "Piki is cornbread baked in colored sheets of paper-like thinness. The batter is spread on the baking stone with the bare hand, and the quickly baked sheet is folded and laid on the basket at the baker's left."

7. Edward S. Curtis devoted 30 years to photographing
and documenting over eighty Indian tribes, west of the Mississippi,from the Mexican border to northern Alaska. His project won support from such prominent and powerful
figures as President Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan.
His work, “The North American Indian”, consisted of 20 leather bound volumes, each containing 75 hand--pressed photogravures and 300 pages of text. Each volume was accompanied by a corresponding portfolio containing at least 36 photogravures.
His proposal to Morgan, his financer, was to “show pictures and text of every phase of Indian life of all tribes yet in a pristine condition…………..going fully into their history, life and manners, ceremony, legends and mythology.”
Music: Wind Spirit by Bill Miller

8. Apache scout
Apache Scout

9. Vash Gon - Jicarilla
Vash Gon - Jicarilla

10. Atsina War Party Farewell

11. Bow River Blackfoot Tipis

12. Apache camp
Apache Camp

13. Bow River Blackfoot
Bow River Blackfoot

14. Cree boat women
Cree Boat Women

15. Cree picking blueberries

16. Gathering Arrow brush – Pima - 1907

17. Atsina warriors
Atsina Warriors

18. GATHERING CACTUS FRUIT PIMA - 1907

19. In the Badlands – Sheep Mountain - 1904
In the Badlands – Sheep Mountains
In the Badlands – Sheep Mountain

20. Land of the Sina
Land of the Sina

21. Lone Chief – Cheyenne
Lone Chief – Cheyenne

22. Lost trail – Apache
Lost Trail – Apache

23. Oglala Sioux Planning Raid - 1907

24. Veteran of the Battle of Little Big Horn
Chief Red Hawk
Chief Red Hawk – Sioux – 1906
Veteran of the Battle of Little Big Horn

25. Primitive Apache home - 1903
Wickiup - Apache Home

26. Storm - Apache
Storm - Apache

27. Sunset in Navaho land
Sunset in Navajo Land

28. The ford of Apache
The ford of Apache

29. PAPAGO
POTTER
1907
The Papago potter

30. Piegan carry willows for sweat lodge - 1900
The Piegan carry willows for sweat lodge
Piegan carry willows for sweat lodge

31. THE POOL
APACHE
1903
The pool

32. War chief - Nez Perce
War Chief – Nez Perce

33. Watching for signal - Nez Perce

34. White River Valley – Apache - 1903

35. DRINK
IN THE
DESERT
A drink in the desert

36. APACHE GIRL
AND
PAPOOSE
APACHE GIRL & PAPOOSE

37. APACHE MORNING BATH
Apache Morning Bath

38. CHAIWA
TEWA
1900
CHAIWA TEWA

39. Hopi Flute Dancers at Tureva Springs - 1921
The Flute dance is a religious ceremony concerned with bringing rain. It represents the legendary arrival of the
Flute people in the Hopi country, their friendly encounter with the clans already there, and the rain-making rites
subsequently performed by them for the common good. The episode here represented was photographed at
Middle mesa. The individual seated near the right end is an albino, not a white man." per Curtis notes.
Flute Dancers At Tureva Springs -1921

40. CHIEF
JOSEPH
NEZ PERCE
1903
CHIEF JOSEPH – NEZ PERCE

41. Evening in Hopi Land
Evening in Hopi Land

42. Geronimo – Apache
Geronimo – Apache

43. HIPAH
WITH
ARROW
BRUSH
MARICOPA
Hipah with arrowbrush

44. At The Old Well of Acoma - 1904
Curtis's description of At The Old Well of Acoma, "Members of Coronado's army of explorers in 1540
and Espejo in 1583 noted the cisterns to collect snow and water on the rock of Acoma." 1904
At The Old Well of Acoma

45. CANON
DEL
MUERTO
canondelmuerto

46. PAPAGO
LUZI
Luzi Papago

47. Curtis with Sioux chiefs on the Custer outlook at Little Big Horn Battleground – 1907
Crow is also Apsaroke.
L.- R. Gen. Custer’s Crow scouts: Goes Ahead, Hairy Moccasin, White Man Runs Him,
Edward Curtis and Alexander Upshaw – Little Big Horn Battleground

48. With almost no fanfare Curtis published the final two volumes of “The North American Indian.” It has been estimated that during the project Curtis took over 40,000 photographs and made 10,000 wax cylinder sound recordings of Indian speech and music. About 200 sets of the works were printed and Curtis delivered 25 sets to J.P. Morgan as promised for partially financing the project. The Morgan Company later sold 19 of those sets. The Library of Congress has a set.
October 19, Edward Sheriff Curtis died of a heart attack at the age of 84, in the home of his daughter Beth. A seventy-six word obituary in the New York Times mentions simply that Curtis had been an authority on Indian history and that he had also been known as a photographer.
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