CURTIS, EDWARD SHERIFF | The North American Indian … Large Plates Supplementing Volume Nineteen. [Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press, 1930]

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CURTIS, EDWARD SHERIFF

The North American Indian … Large Plates Supplementing Volume Nineteen. [Norwood, Massachusetts: The Plimpton Press, 1930]

35 (of 36, lacking no. 665) photogravure plates from portfolio XIX (each ca. 21 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.; 557 x 452 mm), printed on Van Gelder paper, with Curtis's credit, the printer's credit, the title, copyright date, and plate number printed on recto, deckle preserved on edges; some plates with light marginal browning or discoloration.. Uniformly handsomely framed with UVIII Plexiglass.

A fine selection of portraits and other views documenting the Indians of Oklahoma, the Wichita, Southern Cheyenne, Oto, and Southern Comanche from Edward Curtis's monumental North American Indian. Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing The Indians of the United States, The Dominion of Canada, and Alaska. The plates represented are:

652. As It Was in the Old Days

653. A Wichita

654. Wichita Grass-House

655. Grass-House Ceremony—Wichita 

656. Henry—Wichita 

657. Walter Ross—Wichita 

658. The Story of the Washita

659. On the Canadian River

660. Cheyenne Sun-Dance Lodge

661. Hótamitá-Ye Society, Cheyenne Sun-Dance

662. Water Rite Purification, Cheyenne Animal Dance 

663. At the Pool, animal Dance Cheyenne

664. A Cheyenne Chief

666. Cheyenne Costume

667. Cheyenne Maiden

668. Dog Woman—Cheyenne

669. Woísta—Cheyenne Woman

670. Reuben Taylor (Istófhuts)—Cheyenne 

671. Black Belly—Cheyenne

672. The Old Cheyenne

673. The Old Warrior—Arapaho

674. Black Man—Arapaho

675. Standing Two–Oto

676. Lone Chief—Oto

677. Wakónda—Oto

678. Pipe-Stem—Oto

679. Old Eagle—Oto

680. John Abbott—Osage

681. John Quapaw—Húnta Wakúnta

682. Ésipérmi—Comanche

683. Lefthand—Comanche

684. Úwat—Comanche

685. A Comanche Mother

686. A Comanche

687. Peyote Drummer