Nez Percé Warrior, 1905 - Original Photogravure by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

Nez Percé Warrior, 1905by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)Original photogravure on Van Gelder Paperfrom The North American Indian Portfolio 8, Plate 26222" high x 18" wide (paper size), 26" high x 21" wide (framed)archival matting in wood framemint conditionIn the summer of 1900, among the Piegan on the Montana plains, Edward Curtis witnessed what some believed would be the final Sun Dance ceremony. Curtis was profoundly moved by the experience, and it inspired the vision for his life’s work—a massive photo-ethnographic undertaking to present a “broad and luminous picture” of Native American life.Edward Sheriff Curtis was born in 1868 in rural Wisconsin. His family moved to Minnesota, and, in 1885, at age seventeen, Curtis became an apprentice photographer at a studio in St. Paul. Two years later the Curtis family moved to Seattle. Curtis purchased a new camera and began his professional career as a studio portraitist.In 1895, Curtis met and photographed Princess Angeline, daughter of Chie