1. EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 697 Ugiyaku - Nunivak, 1928. 15.6x11.9" image on 18x13.2" copper plate. Plate date 1930. From Portfolio 20, Alaska, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 696/ Ugiyaku - Nunivak /From Copyright Photograph 1928 by E.S. Curtis/Photogravure Suffolk Eng Co Cambridge Mass

2. EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 697 Ugiyaku - Nunivak, 1928. Torn proof photogravure on 12x14" tattered Holland Van Gelder paper and envelope. Envelope date 1930. From Portfolio 20, Alaska, of The North American Indian. Inscribed on print recto: 697/ok/Sheet Face/large X through image.

Curtis wrote about this: "A portrait of the subject shown also in Plate 693, with a different and modified costume."

Curtis wrote that the Natives of Alaska were the most isolated from the White an and were the happiest of all the Indians he had encountered as they still retained many of the old ways.

1. Copper Plate. Very Good. Minor scratches, tarnish, dents, abrasions, small dark spots, and ink residue throughout plate surface.
2. Envelope is in terrible condition having been torn in half, only the top half survived.