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Volume 6

American Indian Museum

Object Details

Collection Photographer

Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

Collection Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Edward S. Curtis photogravure plates and proofs for The North American Indian, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Scope and Contents

This series includes six folio plates and five octavo plates depicting objects used by Pikuni Blackfeet people and portraits of Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) and Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan) men and women. It also has six proofs of folio plates made by Classic Gravure. One plate is covered by a substance or corrosion that obscures the image.
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Edward S. Curtis photogravure plates and proofs for The North American Indian

Sponsor

This collection was processed with funding from the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Extent

11 Printing plates
6 Photomechanical prints

Date

1910-1911
1905
1900
bulk 1910-1911

Container

Box 8vo6-8vo7
Box F11-F14

Archival Repository

National Museum of the American Indian

Identifier

NMAI.AC.080, Series 6

Type

Archival materials
Photographs
Printing plates
Photomechanical prints

Collection Rights

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.

Collection Restrictions

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
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