Puget Sound Baskets
Edward S. Curtis
1912
Medium
Photogravure, plate 309 from "The North American Indian, Volume 9" (1913)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 29.9 × 39.5 cm (11 13/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Mount: 45.5 × 55.8 cm (17 15/16 × 22 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50024
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 ...