Masked Dancer - Cowichan
Edward S. Curtis
1912
Medium
Photogravure, plate 326 from "The North American Indian, Volume 9" (1913)
Dimensions
Image: 38.6 × 27.7 cm (15 1/4 × 10 15/16 in.); Paper: 43.6 × 31.1 cm (17 3/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50056
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 ...