EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS White Man Runs Him Apsaroke 1908 7.2x5.3" Photogravure on Holland Van Gelder paper from Volume 4 of The North American Indian, paper 11x9.5" ASG# ESC/7463

Gen. George Custer hired 4 Crow scouts to lead him to Little Big Horn where he lost both his life and the battle. White Man Runs Him was one of those Crow Scouts. Curtis spent a considerable amount of time with the scouts at the battlefield in Montana.

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 came. Between 1898 and 1928 Working in collaboration with many tribal members Curtis created an ethno-historical account combined with photographic notions of character portraiture, environmental portraiture and classical romanticism as well as straight documentary views. He published 20 octavo volumes with around 75 prints per volume each accompanied with a larger portfolio of usually 36 hand pulled photogravures. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN(1906-1928) is considered the most lavish and elegantly illustrated set of photographic books ever produced. This has lot has original vintage photogravures from this publication made under Curtis supervision.

Very Good. Minor wear from original tissue cover