1. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 230 Big Knife - Flathead, 1910 15.1x11.1" Photogravure on 22x18" Holland Van Gelder Paper from Portfolio 7 of The North American Indian ASG# ESC/6230

The Curtis caption reads: "Big Knife's ancestry includes an Iroquois (perhaps a half breed), one of a number who came into the Northwest as employees of the Hudson's Bay Company. The head-dress of buffalo horns and scalp is not characteristic of the Salish tribes, but of the plains Indians."

2. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 457 Yurok Drummer 1923 11.1x15.4" Photogravure on 18x22" Holland Van Gelder Paper from Portfolio 13 of The North American Indian ASG# ESC/6095

The Curtis caption reads: "The drum of deerskin stretched over a wooden frame was not aboriginal with the Yurok, but was introduced in imitation of drums seen in the possession of the garrison stationed among the Hupa from 1855 to 1892"

3. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 437 Sam Ewing - Yurok, 1923 15.1x11.2" Photogravure on 22x18" Holland Van Gelder Paper from Portfolio 13 of The North American Indian ASG# ESC/8645



Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) created a legacy that was a monumental visual tour de force, an ethnographic, heroic and theatrical record of the American Indian and their recollected and imagined way of life before the white man. His mastery of the grandest pictorial style and technique in his photogravures, orotones and silver and platinum prints was rivaled only by the most elegant prints of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. During this time he was the most famous photographer in the country just as Ansel Adams later in the 20th Century.

ESC/8645 Very Good minor wear handling marks upper left margins show an old fold
ESC/6095 Excellent minor wear one paper flaw left margin
ESC/6230 Very Good mild wear