Running simultaneously in the museum's downstairs gallery is an exhibit of seven vintage photogravures of American Indians by Curtis, who between 1900 and 1930 recorded the vanishing Native American culture west of Mississippi through thousands of photographs and recordings of tribal songs and oral histories. The photographic portraits largely romanticize their subjects by posing them in colorful feathers and buckskins, which few Indians wore in everyday life by then. Easterners viewed photographs not as metaphors for experience, but as reality itself. If images of the West were exotic, it was assumed that the West itself must be exotic. The museum is located in Devlin Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public.