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The North American Indian being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska

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The North American Indian [electronic resource] : being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska / written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, foreword by Theodore Roosevelt; field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Published
[Seattle, Wash.] ; [Cambridge, MA : E. S. Curtis : The University press], 1907-30.
Physical Description
1 online resource (20 v. : fronts. (v. 20 col.) plates, ports. ; 33 cm)
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Notes
"This edition is limited to five hundred sets."
Original photogravures produced in Norwood, Mass. by Plimpton Press and in Cambridge, Mass. by Suffolk Engraving from 1903-1925.
Supplemented by: "The North American Indian, list of large plates supplementing v. 1-20." (20 portfolios of numbered plates 60 x 50 cm.). Number 150 inccorectly numbered 159. Two different plates are numbered 400. Contents: v. 1. no. 1-39.--v. 2. no. 40-75.--v. 3. no. 76-110, 119.--v. 4. no. 111-118, 120-147.--v. 5. no. 148-183.--v. 6. no. 184-219.--v. 7. no. 220-255.--v. 8. no. 256-292.--v. 9. no. 293-328.--v. 10. no. 329-364.--v. 11. no. 365-400.--v. 12. no. 400[a]-435.--v. 13. no. 436-471.--v. 14. no. 472-507.--v. 15. no. 508-543.--v. 16. no. 544-579.--v. 17. no. 580-615.--v. 18. no. 616-651.--v. 19. no. 652-687.--v. 20. no. 688-722. CALL NUMBER: E77.C97a.
Vols. 3-20 contain vocabularies.
Vols. 6-20 printed at the Plimpton press, Norwood, Mass.
Vols. 9-20 have title: The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2005. (North American Indian thought and culture). Available via World Wide Web.
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Variant and related titles
Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2014
Series
North American Indian thought and culture
Contents
I. The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho.
II. The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai.
III. The Teton Sious. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin.
IV. The apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa.
V. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina.
VI. The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho.
VII. The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai.
VIII. The Nez Percʹes. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes.
IX. Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa.
X. The Kwakiutl.
XI. The Nootka. The Haida.
XII. The Hopi.
XIII. The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath.
XIV. The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts.
XV. Southern California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo. XVI. The Tiwa. The Keres.
XVII. The Tewa. The Zuñi.
XVIII. The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi. XIX. The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote cult.
XX. The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak Eskimo of Hooper bay. Eskimo of King island. Eskimo of Little Diomede island. Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik.
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