Staging the Indian Exhibit

This catalogue contrasts the turn- of- the- century photographic and ethnographic record of the American Indian as a “disappearing race” by Edward S. Curtis with new artwork by six contemporary Native artists. Includes a foreword by W. Richard West, essays by Jill Sweet, Katherine Hauser, and Barry Pritzker,... See more 

Early twentieth-century photographer and amateur anthropologist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), convinced the American Indian was doomed to extinction, made it his lifelong goal to create an exhaustive document of memories of this “disappearing race.” Between 1900 and 1930, he traveled the Western half of North... See more