Edward S. Curtis

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

Christie’s, New York, 5 April 2012, Sale 2543, Lot 236

Ralph W. Andrews, Curtis’ Western Indians (New York, 1962), p. 61

Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race (Boston, 1976), pl. 3 and rear cover

Christopher Cardozo, ed., Native Nations: First Americans As Seen by Edward S. Curtis, (Boston, 1993), p. 95

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios (Köln, 1997), p. 55

Christopher Cardozo, ed., Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian (New York, 2000), p. 90

“In the early morning this boy, as if springing from the earth itself, came to the author’s desert camp. Indeed, he seemed a part of the very desert. His eyes bespeak all the curiosity, all the wonders of his primitive mind striving to grasp the meaning of the strange things about him” (The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios, p. 55).