Edward S. Curtis

large-format platinum print, the photographer's copyright, date, credit, and number in the negative, signed by the photographer in ink and with his copyright blindstamp on the image, credited, dated, and annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1900

Other prints of this image:

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios (Köln, 1997), p. 272

Christopher Cardozo, ed., Sacred Legacy: Edward Curtis and the North American Indian (New York, 2000), p. 30

Christopher Cardozo, ed., Native Nations: First Americans as seen by Edward S. Curtis (Boston, 1993), p. 33

Barbara A. Davis, Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher (San Francisco, 1985), p. 32

Laurie Lawlor, Shadow Catcher, the Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis (New York, 1994), p. 52

Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race (Boston, 1976), p. 15

The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis (Lincoln, 2001), pl. 33

This warm-toned platinum print is in generally very good condition. The edges of the print are lightly age-darkened. The corners and edges are rubbed, and there is chipping at the lower right corner. There is a single small loss at the top of both the left and right edges. Original retouching is visible at the bottom center of the image. On the reverse, there are 12 small circular pieces of brown paper remains indicating that this print was at one time affixed to a mount.
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