Sun Dance Encampment-Piegan
1900
Medium
Photogravure, plate 192 from "The North American Indian, Volume 6" (1911)
Dimensions
Image: 15.8 × 34.6 cm (6 1/4 × 13 5/8 in.); Paper: 20.9 × 37.6 cm (8 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.); Mount: 45.9 × 56 cm (18 1/8 × 22 1/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50081
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 ...