Pacifica Island Art - Chief Joseph Nez Perce? War Bonnet - North American Indian - Vintage Sepia Toned Photograph by Edward S. Curtis c.1903 - Master Art Print - 9in x 12in

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Enjoy a taste of Aloha with these beautiful Master Art Prints by Pacifica Island Art - printed in Maui, Hawaii. This print will look wonderful framed in the home, office or restaurant and is perfect for the Vintage Art Collector. - ABOUT THE ARTIST - Edward S. Curtis - Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist who is famous for his landmark publication, The North American Indian, which documented more than eighty Native American tribes in text and photographs. He apprenticed to a photographer in St. Paul, MI in 1885. Two years later, Curtis moved with his family to Seattle where he purchased a new camera and began a photography studio. In 1895, the photographer took his first portrait of a Native American, Princess Angeline, the daughter of Chief Seattle, a Squamish Indian after whom the city of Seattle was named. Several years later, at the National Photographic Convention, he was awarded the grand prize for three of his sepia-toned images of Puget Sound Native Americans. Having become well known through articles and publications of his work, Curtis received a grant of $75,000 from J. P. Morgan to produce a series on Native Americans. The artist devoted the next 30 years to this project, traveling the country and spending weeks with a single tribe. At the time The North American Indian was published in 1930, it was the second most expensive book ever produced in the United Sates, after John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1838). In the years that followed the completion of his project, Curtis participated in several mining ventures, and did some camera work for films in Hollywood. Today, his collections of work are held at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the University of Wyoming in Laramie, among others.