1907 Original Photogravure Painting the Skull Edward S Curtis 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 for Sale

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1907 Original Photogravure Painting the Skull Edward S Curtis 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 For Sale

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1907 Original Photogravure Painting the Skull Edward S Curtis 5 1/2 x 7 1/2:
$650.00

1907 Original Photogravure | Painting the Skull | Edward S Curtis | 5 1/2 x 7 1/2

Taken Dec 26 1907 during the Hu Kalowa Pi ceremony.

The 3 Indians are Slow Bull, Saliva (an Ogalala Sioux priest) and Picket Pin. The Hukalowapi ceremony, which is fully described in Volume III, pages 71-87.

Edward S. Curtis took more then 40,000 photos on Glass plates and other photo means as they came available.

The North American Indian 20 Vol. set (photo exposition project) was funded by J. P. Morgan (his expositions to photo 80 tribes) Publication cost had to be from pre sale of the volumes.

This is an original large photogravure plate from \'The North American Indian.This potogravure used the original photo and was transferred to an etching plate, then hand inked and pressed into vellum paper. Giving it an etching look rather than a photo look.

Originally, 500 sets of the 20 volumes were proposed, but only about half or 227 actual sets were produced.

Original photogravure were produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son.

These publications document indigenous American Indian life in photography and involved a handful of individuals. Edward Sheriff Curtis published The North American Indian between 1907 and 1930.

A true piece of Native American History.

More available from vol 2 only,