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Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952) The North American Indian Volume IV, 1909 Individual volume on Japanese Vellum etching stock Apsaroke, Hidatsa The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Volume IV. Written, Illustrated and Published by Edward S. Curtis. Edited by Fredrick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1909. LIMITED EDITION: Quarto-sized (313 x 239 mm): This volume is numbered 437 of an unfulfilled edition of 500, on handmade Japanese Vellum paper, quarto, top edges gilt, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, raised paneled spines, ribbon bookmarks, with photogravure plates by John Andrew & Son of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. TEXT VOLUME: 74 photogravures, including 1 hand-colored print. Over 240 pages of text and transcriptions of language and music. Hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Hand-bound. ADDITIONAL: This volume is housed in a contemporary, custom slipcase that mimics the binding design of the original volume. Provenance: The North American Indian, Inc.Brudett D. Townsend (original subscriber)Private Collector(s)The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 2010