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The work is based on all the existing Native American Indian tribes west of the Mississippi at the beginning of the twentieth Century.  Each volume, bound in Moroccan leather contains its own appendix which summarizes the tribes therein, covering the areas of language, population, dress, dwellings, primitive foods, arts and industries, games, political organization, social organization, marriage, culture hero, ceremonies, medicine men, burial customs, vocabularies, biographical sketches, winter count, and music.  Each volume consists of about 300 pages, and there are 1,500 photogravure prints in the text volumes. Each portfolio corresponding to each volume, consists of 36 – 39 individual large copperplate photogravures, measuring 12 x 16 inches, on 18 x 22 inch imported hand – made rich toned Holland Van Gelder paper. There are a total of 722 large photogravure images. Nothing was spared in order to make “The North American Indian beautiful and lasting. It stands today, as it did then, as one of the finest, costliest and most exceptional examples of bookmaking and binding. The photogravures are today considered to be the most recognized visual memory and history of the Native American Indian. His Indian portraits and photographs are highly prized and some of the most valuable in existence.

EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (Seattle, Washington - 1869-1952)
"CHIEF GARFIELD – JAMES A. GARFIELD VALARDE  – JICARILLA APACHE”
1904 Vintage,original photogravure from Curtis’ work The North American Indian.
Printed on Holland Van Gelder paper, copyright John Andrew & Son.Edward Sheriff Curtis.Garfield’s name was a tribute to the 20th President of the U.S. Garfield purportedly lived to be 108 years old.
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EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (Seattle, Washington)  1868  - 1952
"VASH GON –JICARILLA, 1907”
Original photogravure from Edward Sheriff Curtis”, The Vanishing Race. Plate 20. 
Holland Van Gelder paper, John Andrews and Sons 1907.
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