Edward Sheriff Curtis : visions of the first Americans

Curtis, Edward S 1868-1952 (Author). Gulbrandsen, Don, (selector,, author of essay.).

Summary: This book is a tribute to the work of the famous photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis, known for his historic photographs of Native Americans, and also a tribute to the Native Americans that he photographed.

Record details

ISBN: 9780785821144
ISBN: 0785821147
Physical Description: print
256 pages : chiefly illustrations, color map, portraits ; 31 x 43 cm
Publisher: Edison, NJ : Chartwell Books ; 2006.
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Over 300 photographs by Edward Sheriff Curtis from his inspirational work on the North American Indian"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho. -- II. The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai. -- III. The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin. -- IV. The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa. -- V. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina. -- VI. The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho. -- VII. The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai. -- VIII. The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes. -- IX. The Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa. -- X. The Kwakiutl. -- XI. The Nootka. The Haida. -- XII. The Hopi. -- XIII. The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath. -- XIV. The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts. -- XV. Southern California Shoshoneans. The Deigueños. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo. -- XVI. The Tiwa. The Keres. -- XVII. The Tewa. The Zuñi. -- XVIII. The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi. -- XIX. The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The Southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote Cult. -- XX. The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik.