EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (American, 1868-1952). The North American Indian, Volume 6: The Cheyenne. The Arapaho, 1905-1911. ... (Total: 2 Items)

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EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (American, 1868-1952)
The North American Indian, Volume 6: The Cheyenne. The Arapaho, 1905-1911
Photogravure
Book: 12-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm) each
Portfolio: 22 x 18 inches (55.9 x 45.7 cm) each

Theses are incomplete, unbound, and uncovered books with portfolios. This lot contains fifty-eight of seventy-five book images in pristine condition with corresponding text and sixteen of thirty-six portfolio images with corresponding text.

A Favorite Cheyenne Costume
12-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm)
Titled lower left: A Favorite Cheyenne Costume
Detail from book

Mother and Child (Arapaho)
12-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (31.8 x 24.1 cm)
Titled lower left: Mother and Child (Arapaho)
Detail from book

Book includes text and the following images:
Two Medicine River (Piegan)
A Prairie Camp (Piegan)
A Buffalo-Fall (Piegan)
Piegan War-Bonnet and Coup-Stick
The Grizzly-Bear (Piegan)
Camp in the Foothills (Piegan)
Overlooking the Camp (Piegan)
A Grave-House (Piegan)
A Piegan Home
In the Lodge (Piegan)
Goldenrod Meadows (Piegan)
The Crier (Piegan)
The Pledger (Piegan)
Return with Willows (Piegan)
Substitute Sacred Head-Dress (Piegan)
Piegan Dancers
The Whistler (Piegan)
The Sun Lodge (Piegan)
Day-Dreams (Piegan)
Camp by a Prairie Lake (Piegan)
Piegan Girls
A Child's Lodge (Piegan)
Buffalo-Stones (Piegan)
Medicine-Bags (Piegan)
Running Owl (Piegan)
Cheyenne Woman
Wood-Gatherers (Cheyenne)
Cheyenne Matron
Cheyenne Man
Cheyenne Female Profile
Cheyenne Female Type
Warrior Society Encircling Camp (Cheyenne)
Cutting the Center Pole (Cheyenne)
Return with Boughs (Cheyenne)
Departure from Preparation Lodge (Cheyenne)
Lame Deer Monuments (Cheyenne)
Offering pipe to the Earth (Cheyenne)
Offering pipe to the Skull (Cheyenne)
Priests Passing Before the Pipe (Cheyenne)
Painting the Poles (Cheyenne)
Before the Final Journey
Crazy Dancers (Cheyenne)
Animal Dance (Cheyenne)
Sweat-Lodge Frame (Cheyenne)
Devotees en Route (Cheyenne)
Building the Sun Lodge (Cheyenne)
The Altar (Cheyenne)
Sun Dance in Progress (Cheyenne)
Gray Dawn (Cheyenne)
Dancing (Cheyenne)
Arapaho Youth
Arapaho Camp
Eagle Chief (Arapaho)
Arapaho Water Girl
Stone Grave (Cheyenne)
On Little Powder River - Arapaho

Portfolio includes text and the following images:
At the Water's Edge - Piegan
Middle Calf - Piegan
Two Bear Woman - Piegan
Cheyenne Girl
Morning Eagle - Piegan
At the Ford - Cheyenne
Yellow Kidney - Piegan
Camp in the Cottonwoods - Cheyenne
Bringing the Sweat-Lodge Willows - Piegan
Old Person - Piegan
Piegan
Sun Dance Encampment - Piegan
Painted Lodges - Piegan
Grizzly-Bear Brave - Piegan
Tearing Lodge - Piegan
White Calf - Piegan



More information about EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS. See also: Curtis, Edward Sheriff, Curtis, Edward, Curtis, Edward S., Edward S. Curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis Artist.

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