Hidden Faces – Mini Book

Description

Mythologies and rites of Native Americans, fascinated ethnographer/photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis during his journeys in the United States, Canada, and Alaska from the 1890s through to the 1930s, these aspects of tribal life, recorded extensively on Film, and in text, played a large part in Curtis’ multi volume publication, The North American Indian.

 Masquerades, body, painting, scarring, and other ritual related transformations were parts of the cultures of many native nations. Some tribes crafted elaborate masks, and costumes to impersonate deities in their highly meaningful ceremonies and celebrations. Two peoples in particular, had especially rich masking traditions – The Kwakiutl of British Columbia and the Navajo of the American Southwest.