The Plains Indian photographs of Edward S. Curtis

Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952 (Author).

Summary: "The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains - Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others - are recalled in detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0803215126
ISBN: 9780803215122
Physical Description: print
viii, 81 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Martha H. Kennedy -- Picturing Indians: Curtis in Context / Martha A. Sandweiss -- Ways of Seeing the Curtis Project on the Plains / Mick Gidley -- The Aesthetic Impulses of Edward S. Curtis's Images of the Great Plains Indians / Duane Niatum -- The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis.