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The North American Indian : being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska / written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis ; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge ; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt ; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan

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Publisher:
Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952  Search this
University Press (Cambridge, Mass.)  Search this
Editor:
Hodge, Frederick Webb 1864-1956  Search this
Writer of foreword:
Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1919  Search this
Patron:
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont) 1837-1913  Search this
Binder:
Blackwell, Henry 1851-1928 DSI  Search this
Dennett, W. DSI  Search this
Donor:
Averell, Mary Williamson 1851-1932 DSI  Search this
Former owner:
Wineland, Lloyd G. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
20 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm. & 20 portfolios (723 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, music ; 60 cm)
Type:
Portraits
Date:
1907
1930
Notes:
Volumes 9-20 have variant subtitle: ... describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska
"This edition is limited to five hundred sets"--verso of half-title page
Title in red and black
The portfolio contents leaves have caption title: The North American Indian : list of large plates supplementing volumes 1-20
Photogravures on tissue; this limited ed. was produced on three types of paper, the rarest being the tissue copies
Text volumes 3-20 contain vocabularies
Errors in pagination: portfolio plate no. 150 incorrectly numbered 159; two plates numbered 400
SCNHRB has two copies. Some photographs are hand-colored (volumes 18 and 20 of copy 1; volume 5 of copy 2)
SCNHRB copy 1, v. 1 (39088002833044) is limited edition copy no. 210
SCNHRB copy 1 has some volumes bound by H. Blackwell; some by W. Dennett
SCNHRB copy 1 has donor's leaf of letterpress bound before half-title in v. 1: Mrs. E.H. Harriman [Mary Williamson Averell]
SCNHRB copy 1, plates v. 4 has extra plate 119
SCNHRB copy 2 has text v. 5 (39088008422099) and plates v. 5 (39088008422107), only. All plates are present
SCNHRB copy 2 is limited edition copy no. 333
SCNHRB copy 2 has handwritten initials in ink on verso of title page: "La."
SCNHRB copy 2 is bound in half-leather and brown cloth; gilt-stamped cover and spine
SCNHRB copy 2 has bookplate: "The Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Charlotte and Lloyd Wineland Collection of Native American and Western Exploration Literature."
Contents:
I. The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho -- II. The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai -- III. The Teton Sious. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin -- IV. The apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa -- V. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina -- VI. The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho -- VII. The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai -- VIII. The Nez Percés. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes -- IX. Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa -- X. The Kwakiutl -- XI. The Nootka. The Haida -- XII. The Hopi -- XIII. The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath -- XIV. The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts -- XV. Southern California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo -- XVI. The Tiwa. The Keres -- XVII. The Tewa. The Zuñi -- XVIII. The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi -- XIX. The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote cult -- XX. The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak Eskimo of Hooper Bay. Eskimo of King island. Eskimo of Little Diomede island. Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik
Topic:
Languages  Search this
Call number:
E77 .C978 1907
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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