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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| Language: | English |
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[Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass.] :
[The University Press],
1907-1930.
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| Item Description: | Volumes 9-20 have variant subtitle: ... describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska. The portfolio contents leaves have caption title: The North American Indian : list of large plates supplementing volumes 1-20. Photogravures on tissue; this limited edition was produced on three types of paper, the rarest being the tissue copies. Text volumes 3-20 contain vocabularies. Errors in pagination: portfolio plate number 150 incorrectly numbered 159; two plates numbered 400. "This edition is limited to 500 sets of which this is number 75." |
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| Physical Description: | 20 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 33 cm + 20 portfolios (723 leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 60 cm) |