Mówakiu-Tsawatenok
1914
Medium
Photogravure, plate 332 from "The North American Indian, Volume 10" (1915)
Dimensions
Image: 38.8 × 27.8 cm (15 5/16 × 11 in.); Paper: 44.1 × 31.3 cm (17 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.); Mount: 56.5 × 46.2 cm (22 1/4 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50034
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 ...