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Edward S. Curtis’s
The North American Indian

portfolio 3 plate no. 79 Sioux chiefs - photogravure plate

Portfolio plate no. 79

Title

Sioux chiefs

Curtis Caption

Very often two or three men would form themselves into a war-party and ride away to be gone weeks or months. Sometimes they returned with scalps or horses, or women ; and again the war-party, whether large or small, met defeat and none survived to bring back to anxious wives and children the story of the disaster.

Creator

Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952

Physical Description

1 photogravure : brown ink ; 36 x 44 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son

Date of Original

1905

Source

The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.03, The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1908), plate no. 79

Relation

Digital images of the plates supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, and mounted in American Memory. See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
Digital reproduction of the photomechanical print

Digital I.D.

cp03004

Rights

For educational, non-commercial use only. Written permission required for any reproduction beyond fair use. Credit: Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian," 2003.
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/

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