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Edward S. Curtis – Life & Work

“It’s such a big dream.
I can’t see it all.”
– Edward Sheriff Curtis

These words may have been the most profound Edward S. Curtis ever wrote. They were addressed to noted anthropologist George Bird Grinnell one hundred years ago, shortly after what was to be the defining experience of Curtis’ life. In the summer of 1900, Curtis first encountered Native American culture relatively unaltered by Europeans. He witnessed one of the last performances of the Sun Dance ceremony and was given access to the sacred lives of numerous Native Americans.

The North American Indian

One hundred years ago, Edward Sheriff Curtis began a thirty-year odyssey to photograph and document the lives and traditions of the Native peoples of North America. This monumental project, The North American Indian, was hailed by The New York Herald as “the most gigantic undertaking since the making of the King James edition of the Bible.”

Following the path laid out in Curtis’ 20-volume magnum opus, The North American Indian, geographic regions are presented separately and individual tribes within each region that he photographed are depicted and described in this complete tribal map.

A photographic timeline of the life of Edward S. Curtis, a man who’s inspiration ultimately grew into an immutable resolve to produce an indelible and irreplaceable record of Native American culture at a time when it was in serious decline.

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Native Americans on Curtis

Scott Momaday
"For Edward Sheriff Curtis the camera was truly a magic box, a precision instrument that enabled him to draw with light, to transcend the limits of ordinary vision, to see into the shadows of the soul. It is not by accident that he was called by his American Indian subject Shadow Catcher.”

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Joseph D. Horse Capture
"In Indian homes all across the country, photographs by the early-twentieth-century anthropologist and photographer Edward Curtis hang on the walls, over fireplaces and dining tables, in living rooms and dens. These priceless images help modern Indian people maintain links to their past.”

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Louise Erdrich
"When I look into the eyes of the women photographed by Edward Curtis, there is an exchange, there is intensity of regard. Curtis mastered the art of making his subject so dimensional, so present, so complete, that it is to me as though I am looking at the women through a window, as though they are really there in the print and in the paper, looking back at me."

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