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Ad Code: 3
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Girl and Jar, San Ildefonso [New Mexico], photogravure on tissue mounted on paper sight,
16 5/8" x 12 1/4", 1905
From the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868 - 1952)
Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His (showing 500 of 12954 characters). |
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