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Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Photographic Images

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Spirit of the past - Apsaroke (The North American Indian; v.04)

CREATOR
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.

SUMMARY
Description by Edward S. Curtis: A particularly striking group of old-time warriors, conveying so much of the feeling of the early days of the chase and the war-path that the picture seems to reflect in an unusual degree "the spirit of the past."

NOTES
1 photogravure : brown ink ; 45 x 34 cm.

Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son, c1908.

Original source: The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa [portfolio] ; plate no. 122

Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1909.

SUBJECTS
Crow Indians.
Warriors
Horses
Coup-sticks
Body painting
Hides & skins
Feathers
Headdresses
Great Plains

OBJECT TYPE
Photomechanical print
Image

REPOSITORY
Northwestern University. Library., Evanston, Ill.

DIGITAL ID
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/iencurt.cp04011

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