EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 326 Masked Dancer - Cowichan, 1905. 15.3x10.9" photogravure on 22x18" Japan Vellum paper. Print date 1913. From Portfolio 9, Puget Sound Tribes, of The North American Indian. Printed on print recto: Plate 326 / Masked Dancer - Cowichan / From Copyright Photograph 1912 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure John Andrew & Son.

Curtis wrote about this: "The dancer personates one of the mythic ancestors who descended from the sky. Note the huge, carved house-post at the right."

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) created a legacy that was a monumental visual tour de force, an ethnographic, 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.

Excellent. Minor wear.