Hot off the press, published on 18th February, 2025. All 20 volumes in one huge impressive collection with beautiful motifs, decorations and the famous photographic archive. Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868?1952) dedicated his entire life to use a camera to preserve the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of North America. Include tribes such as the Apache and Navajo Papago, Mohave, the Teton Sioux, Mandan, Cheyenne, Klickitat, Salishan tribes of the interior and off the coast, the Nootka, the Hopi, the Hupa, the Shasta, the Kato, the Yuki, the Pomo, Shoshoneans, the Tiwa, the Zuni, the Indian Indians of Oklahoma, the southern Cheyanne, the Comanche, the Peyote cult, the Alaskan Eskimo, the Nunivak, the Eskimo of Hooper Bay, of King Island and Cape, and the Selawik. there are gloriously colourful artworks of the shadow catcher, of masks and elaborate feathered costumes, of babies in papouses, and moccasins and Thunderbird dances and lost rituals, and of course beautiful landscapes of mountains and plains. For three decades, he travelled in every region of the continent, through every kind of terrain and weather, via land or water, in the 50°C heat of the Mojave Desert or the -20°C chill of the Arctic. More than 40,000 photos were produced during those years. During his lifetime, the finest of these photographs entitled The North American Indian, were presented in twenty elaborate, large-scale portfolios with which Curtis raised a monument to commemorate the disappearing culture of North America?s indigenous peoples and to bring it fully back to life. The earliest dates from 1903, the last 1928. In addition, the book holds a selection of photographs from the text volumes. Without Edward S. Curtis we would hardly know a thing about the rites of the Hopi in America?s southwest, nor be able to picture the Qagyuhl winter dancers, or have any idea of the ceremonies on Nunivak Island. Brand new from Taschen. Golden clothbound sturdy slipcased with Native American design on the spine, and artworks on chiefs on inlays, 26.1 x 7.3 x 32.3 cm, 696 pages.
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