The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios

For over thirty years, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the length and breadth of North America, seeking to record in words and images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. Like a man possessed, he strove to realize his life’s work, which culminated in the publication of his encyclopedic work The North American Indian . In the end, this monumental work comprised twenty portfolios and twenty text volumes with over 2,000 illustrations.