The North American Indian
Subtitle: being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska
By: 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
Edition: Custom edition volume.
Publisher: Christopher Cardozo Fine Art
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
ISBN-13: 9781942076001; 9781942076025; 9781942076032; 9781942076049; 9781942076056; 9781942076018; 9781942076063; 9781942076070; 9781942076087; 9781942076094; 9781942076100; 9781942076117; 9781942076124; 9781942076131; 9781942076148; 9781942076155; 9781942076162; 9781942076179; 9781942076186; 9781942076193; 9781942076209; 9781942076216; 9781942076223; 9781942076230; 9781942076254; 9781942076247
Subjects: Indians of North America; Pictorial works; Languages; Music
Other titles: North American Indian :
Description: "[A] comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes of the United States and Alaska that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions. The value of such a work, in great measure, will lie in the breadth of its treatment, in its wealth of illustration, and in the fact that it represents the result of personal study of a people who are rapidly losing the traces of their aboriginal character and who are destined ultimately to become assimilated with the 'superior race.' It has been the aim to picture all features of the Indian life and environment--types of the young and the old, with their habitations, industries, ceremonies, games, and everyday customs ... Though the treatment accorded the Indians by those who lay claim to civilization and Christianity has in many cases been worse than criminal, a rehearsal of these wrongs does not properly find a place here"--General introduction.
Notes: Vols. 9-20 have title: The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska ...

Original photogravures produced in Norwood, Mass. by Plimpton Press and in Cambridge, Mass. by Suffolk Engraving from 1903-1925.

"The Custom Edition Volumes are printed on 80# Mohawk Superfine softwhite eggshell finish paper. Text and layout replicate the original Curtis Volumes. All Custom Edition Volume images were sourced from vintage, original ptotogravures from the Frederick Webb Hodge Set of The North American Indian. Hodge, Curtis' editor, was the only person other than Curtis who was involved in the project from beginning to completion. The Hodge Set is one of the most beautiful, valuable, and historically important Curtis Sets in existence. This is the only time the Hodge Set has been used for reproduction purposes. The entire Hodge Set has been conserved, cleaned, and de-acidified, resulting in exceptionally beautiful prints. The resulting digital files are unique in their quality and are capable of yielding unusually rich reproductions."--Volume 1, colophon.

This edition is limited to 75 numbered sets.

Vols. 3-20 contain vocabularies.

Supplemented by: "The North American Indian, list of large plates supplementing v. ..." (5 volumes ; 40 cm). Two different plates are numbered 400. Contents: v. [1], plates for text v. 1-4: plate nos. 1-147 -- v. [2], plates for text v. 5-8: plate nos. 148-292 -- v. [3], plates for text v. 9-12: plates nos. 293-435 -- v. [4], plates for text v. 13-16: plate nos 436- 579 -- v. [5], plates for text v. 17-20: plate nos. 580-722.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho -- -- 2.; title: The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai -- -- 3.; title: The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin -- -- 4.; title: The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa -- -- 5.; title: The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina -- -- 6.; title: The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho -- -- 7.; title: The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai -- -- 8.; title: The Nez Percés. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes -- -- 9.; title: Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa -- -- 10.; title: The Kwakiutl -- -- 11.; title: The Nootka. The Haida -- -- 12.; title: The Hopi -- -- 13.; title: The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath -- -- 14.; title: The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts -- -- 15.; title: Southern California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo -- -- 16.; title: The Tiwa. The Keres -- -- 17.; title: The Tewa. The Zuñi -- -- 18.; title: The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi -- -- 19.; title: The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote cult -- -- 20.; title: 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.