Arikara Medicine Ceremony - the Ducks
Edward S. Curtis
1908
Medium
Photogravure, plate 163 from "The North American Indian, Volume 5" (1909)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 39.9 × 28.1 cm (15 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Mount: 55.7 × 45.7 cm (21 15/16 × 18 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49937
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 ...