Curtis, Edward S.
American (1868-1952)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Bow River - Blackfoot
BOOK TITLE: "Portfolio 18, The North American Indian, Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska"

1896-1926 / print 1926 by Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge, Mass.
photogravure print on Van Gelder Holland paper
29.5 x 39.6 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange
GEH NEG: 20695
74:0033:0029

NON-GEH NUMBER: Plate 644

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Adam, Hans Christian, essay. --Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios.-- Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, 1997. p. 697.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 433.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Plate 644" "Bow River - Blackfoot" "From Copyright Photograph 1926 by E.S. Curtis" "Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge, Mass."

NOTES: Catalogued 6/99, DZ. "Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographs and documents ever major native American tribe, west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes." ["Edward Sheriff Curtis-Biography," www.curtis-collection.com/curtis.html]

SUBJECTS:
dress, native american
people, on horseback
landscape, river