Native Nations: First North Americans as Seen by Edward Curtis

"In the early part of this century, Edward Curtis set out to photograph and document the tribal traditions of North America's Indians -- an enterprise that became a twenty-five-year obsession. The result was his limited-edition magnum opus, The North American Indian a twenty-volume work with more than 2,000 gravure images and copious anthropological notes -- far and away the most important photographic record of Native American culture ever produced. Native Nations assembles 125 of Curtis' finest photographs, each reproduced in magnificent quadrotone using today's state-of-the-art printing technology. Selected by Curtis expert Christopher Cardozo and introduced by leading Native American scholar, George P. Horse Capture."--the publisher.