A Mat House - Skokomish
1912
Medium
Photogravure, plate 301 from "The North American Indian, Volume 9" (1913)
Dimensions
Image: 30 × 39.2 cm (11 13/16 × 15 7/16 in.); Paper: 35 × 42.5 cm (13 13/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Mount: 46.1 × 56.1 cm (18 3/16 × 22 1/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50077
About the Artist
Edward S. Curtis · 1868–1952
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was an American photographer and ethnographer whose monumental project "The North American Indian" — a forty-volume illustrated work documenting over eighty Native American tribes — is one of the most ambitious photographic enterprises ever undertaken. Born near Whitewater, Wisconsin, he grew up in Minnesota and established a portrait studio in Seattle, Washington, in ...