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Authors: Timothy Egan
Curtis and his single set of
NAI,
from the author’s interview with Lois Flury, who learned of the set from the family
and later arranged the sale.
EPILOGUE: REVIVAL
New Mexico account, from Flury interview with the author.
Additional account of how Curtis’s plates were sold and resold, from
Popular Photography,
May 1984.
Death of Ella McBride, from
HistoryLink.org
essay, no number, posted July 21, 2010.
Auction prices, as reported by the houses mentioned in the text.
Biggest price yet for a photo lot, from
Artnet.com
, October 14, 2005.
University of Oregon sale, from the author’s interview with Flury.
Private sale, $1.8 million, as reported on July 11, 2011, by
Fine Books & Collections,
www.finebooksmagazine.com
. Price was independently confirmed by the author.
Hopi revival, from the author’s visit to Hopi Nation.
Makah, whaling and use of Curtis, from
HistoryLink.org
, essay 5310.
Modern Coast Salish canoe journey and ritual, from
New York Times,
July 25, 2011.
Discussion of stagings, vetting and poses, from letter to Leitch, and quotes on how
Curtis worked, from
New York Times
profile, April 16, 1911.
Momaday quote, from
Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian,
Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Value of Curtis’s work to scholarship of battle, from Philbrick,
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Tulalip and Curtis picture in lobby, visited by the author.
Curtis findings on Custer: the ones he did not publish are in the Library of Congress,
The Papers of Edward S. Curtis Relating to Custer’s Last Battle,
edited by James Hutchins.
Largest anthropological project ever undertaken, assessment from Curtis scholar Mick
Gidley,
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated.
Significance of the film: from
Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
June 9, 2008, containing a good appraisal by film critic William Arnold, and from
Holm and Quimby,
Edward S. Curtis in the Land of the War Canoes.
Census on Indian revival,
www.census.gov.
Duwamish, from “The Tribe That Would Not Die,”
Seattle Metropolitan Magazine,
March 2009.
Frontispiece: University of Washington Special Collections, UW 2807. Princess Angeline:
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
Curtis on Rainier: The Mazamas Library of Portland, Oregon. Indians drying bark: The
Mazamas Library of Portland, Oregon.
A Piegan Dandy:
Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis’s
The North American Indian. Piegan Camp:
Library of Congress.
Snake Priest:
Library of Congress. Chief Joseph: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections,
Northwestern University. Theodore Roosevelt: Wikipedia Commons. Curtis at Sagamore
Hill: Library of Congress.
At the Old
Well of Acoma:
Library of Congress. J. P. Morgan: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art
Resource, NY.
Mosa—Mohave:
Library of Congress. Belle da Costa Greene: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution/Art Resource, NY.
Before the Storm—Apache:
Library of Congress.
Vanishing Race—Navajo:
Library of Congress.
Geronimo—Apache:
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern University.
Cañon de Chelly:
Library of Congress.
On the Custer Lookout:
Library of Congress.
A Heavy Load—Sioux:
Library of Congress. Writing cabin: Library of Congress.
Upshaw—Apsaroke:
Library of Congress.
Bear’s Belly—Arikara:
Library of Congress.
Eagle Catcher—Hidatsa:
Library of Congress.
The
Fisherman—Wisham:
Library of Congress.
Shore of
Shoalwater Bay:
Library of Congress. Curtis with whale: University of Washington Special Collections,
UW 19573. Dancers in canoe: Library of Congress. Wedding party: Library of Congress.
Makah Whaler:
Library of Congress. Meany with Chief Joseph: University of Washington Special Collections.
Walpi Maidens—Hopi:
Library of Congress.
On a Housetop
—
Hopi:
Library of Congress.
A Smoky Day at the Sugar Bowl—Hupa:
Library of Congress.
Woman and Child:
Library of Congress.
King Island Village:
Library of Congress.
Wilbur Peebo—Comanche:
Library of Congress. Curtis in his eighties: University of Washington Special Collections.
Page references in italics refer to photographs.
Acoma fortress/people
Anasazi and,
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Act of Obedience and Homage (Spanish),
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Adams, Henry,
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“alarm clock” in photo,
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Alaska/Curtis project (1927)
finances for,
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Alaska scientific exploration (1899)
goals,
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See also
specific individuals;
Tlingit people/Alaska expedition
Alaska scientific exploration/Curtis (1899)
audio recording device and,
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iceberg incident,
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photos,
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proposal,
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Tlingit and,
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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909),
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Alberta natives,
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Alchise (Apache) portrait,
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,
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alcohol effects on Indians,
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Algonquin language,
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Ament, Delores Tarzan,
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American Anthropologist,
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American bison
Cody and,
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Anasazi/descendants,
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,
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,
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Angeline, Princess
descendants,
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language and,
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Angeline, Princess/Curtis
meeting,
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Apache
bounty hunters and,
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Chiricahua Apache,
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roundup of,
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See also
Geronimo (Apache)
Apsaroke people,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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See also
Crow
Argus
,
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Arnold, William,
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Athapaskan dialects,
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Atlantic Monthly,
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Atsina people,
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At the Old Well of Acoma
(Curtis),
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,
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,
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Audubon Society,
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Banker’s Panic.
See
Panic of 1907
Bass, Sophie Frye,
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Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
Arapaho and,
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Custer’s words/actions,
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Indian/white numbers,
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outcome,
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Sitting Bull (Sioux),
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Battle of the Little Bighorn story/Curtis