EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS. Pl. 261 Watching For The Signal - Nez Perce, 1910. 15.5x11.8" photogravure on 22x18" Japan vellum paper from Portfolio 8 of The North American Indian. Printed below image on print recto: Watching For The Signal - Nez Perce / From Copyright Photograph 1910 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure John Andrew and Son. Print recto inscribed in pencil: ESC/5446.

Curtis presented images of what life was like before the white man came such as this one with the scouts watching in a manipulated night scene where the tones were intentionally darkened.

Edward Sheriff Curtis's (1868-1952) legacy was a monumental, heroic and theatrical record of the American Indian and their recollected and imagined way of life before the white man. His mastery of the grandest pictorial style and technique in his photogravures, orotones and silver and platinum prints was rivaled only by the most elegant prints of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. During this time he was the most famous photographer in the country, just as Ansel Adams later in the 20th Century.

Good. Minor wear, scuffing on image.