Masked Dancers in Canoes-Qagyuhl A
Edward S. Curtis
1914
Medium
Photogravure, plate 351 from "The North American Indian, Volume 10" (1915)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 29 × 38.8 cm (11 7/16 × 15 5/16 in.); Mount: 45.3 × 56.5 cm (17 7/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50013
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 ...