Northwestern University
Digital Library Collections

Edward S. Curtis’s
The North American Indian

portfolio 3 plate no. 95 In the land of the Sioux - photogravure plate

Portfolio plate no. 95

Title

In the land of the Sioux

Curtis Caption

This picture illustrates the general character of the Sioux country. The broad, rolling prairie is broken by low hills, while here and there lie pools of stagnant water in old buffalo-wallows. The subjects of the pictures are Red Hawk, Crazy Thunder, and Holy Skin, three Ogalala who accompanied the author on a trip into the Bad Lands.

Creator

Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952

Physical Description

1 photogravure : brown ink ; 37 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. 95

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.

cp03020

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/

Print this Page