Edward S. Curtis Portraits

In 1906, J. P. Morgan commissioned Edward S. Curtis to produce a series of books depicting Native American life.
Edward S. Curtis Portraits contains over 250 of the project's beautiful and haunting portraits. Talented photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis set out on the project with the goal of becoming a successful portrait artist, but as he worked taking photographs of the "vanishing Indian," he discovered a calling as an ethnographer and embarked on a mission to document every aspect of traditional Native American culture before it disappeared forever.