Quniáika - Mohave
1903
Medium
Photogravure, plate 60 from "The North American Indian, Volume 2" (1908)
Dimensions
Image: 39.8 × 30 cm (15 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Paper: 44.5 × 32.8 cm (17 9/16 × 12 15/16 in.); Mount: 56.2 × 46.2 cm (22 3/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50038
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 ...