1. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Wishham Beadwork 1910 7.1x5" Photogravure on Japan Vellum paper from Volume 8 of The North American Indian, paper 9.5x12.5" ASG# ESC/8540

Chinookan Tribe on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon.

2. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Parfleches - Atsina 1908 4.6x7.2" Photogravure on Tissue paper on Holland Van Gelder mount from Volume 5 of The North American Indian, paper 9.5x12.5" ASG# ESC/8550
The Gros Ventres or Atsina are near Ft. Belknap, Montana.

In every volume of The North American Indian there was at least one photogravure that was hand colored. the use of color was particularly relevant to photographs of the artistically rendered daily items of use- baskets, pots, bags, and footwear made as a still life.

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.

Excellent. Minor wear.