North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis
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Wedding party - Qagyuhl
Date: Prior to 1930
A Nakoaktok Chief's Daughter
Date: Prior to 1930
A Paguate Entrance
Date: Prior to 1930
Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon - Qagychl
Date: Prior to 1930
The Mussel Gatherer
Date: Prior to 1930
The Apache Reaper
Date: Prior to 1930
The Apache
Date: Prior to 1930
In the land of the Sioux
Date: Prior to 1930
Vash Gon - Jicarilla
Date: Prior to 1930
Eskadi - Apache
Date: Prior to 1930
Masked dancers - Qagyuhl
Date: Prior to 1930
Kotsuis and Hohhuq - Nakoaktok
Date: Prior to 1930
Hastobíga, Navaho Medicine-man
Date: Prior to 1930
Jicarilla maiden
Date: Prior to 1930
Apache Nalin
Date: Prior to 1930
The Vanishing Race - Navaho
Date: Prior to 1930
Luqaiot - Kittitas
Date: Prior to 1930
"Yurok Canoe on Trinity River" (Printed on Photograph)
Date: Prior to 1930
Fish-Weir Across Trinity River--Hupa
Date: Prior to 1930
Collection: The North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis - Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what was perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental publication The North American Indian presented to the public an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and his photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indian. The Smithsonian Libraries holds a complete set of this work, which includes photogravures on tissue, donated by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, whose husband had conducted an expedition to Alaska with Curtis in 1899.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Diana Topan
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precious piece of history. thank you photography news and smithsonian institution for these photos.
Harry O'Conner says
My roots are north American Indian and I am wondering sometimes how different my life could be now if my ancestors' lives had not been touch by any 'civilized' race in the past...
Anonymous says
@ Harry O'Conner
You'd still be wearing loin clothes, riding a horse without a saddle, hunting with an axe and talking a weird language believing in spirits and dying at 30 because of the poor hygiene and killing/scalping strangers considering them a threat. In short, you would be still an uncivilized savage :)