1. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 339 On The Beach - Nakoaktok, 1914 15.25x10.75" Photogravure on Japan Vellum Paper from Portfolio 10 of The North American IndianASG# ESC/8692

The Curtis Caption reads: "This high-born clam-digger is wearing aboriginal costume consisting of a cedar-bark blanket, used as a robe, a cedar-bark rain-cape, a spruce-root "chief's hat," and woolen ankle-bands."

2. EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 342 Gathering Abalones - Nakoaktok, 1914 15x10.8" Photogravure on Japan Vellum paper from Portfolio 10 of The North American Indian ASG# ESC/8693

2 Edward Curtis original large photogravures of a Nak'waxda'xw Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations woman posed in her cedar bark dress and decorated had on the beach and a second view as she gathers abalone. Vancouver Island, British Columbia

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.

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