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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Village Scene - Neah Bay, 1915. 5.5x7.5" image on 7x8.5" copper plate. Plate date 1916. From Volume 11, The Nootka, Haida and Vancouver Island, of The North American Indian. Plate recto engraved: Village Scene - Neah Bay / From Copyright Photograph 1915 by E.S. Curtis. This Canadian view is a modern social documentary, with sharp edges it is one of the few photographs Curtis made featuring a dog. Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) created a legacy that was a monumental visual tour de force, an ethnographic, heroic and theatrical record of the American Indian and their recollected and imagined way of life before the white man. Between 1898 and 1928, working in collaboration with many tribal members, Curtis created an ethno-historical account combined with photographic notions of character portraiture, environmental portraiture, and classical romanticism as well as straight documentary views. He published 20 octavo volumes with around 75 prints per volume each accompanied with a larger portfolio of usually 36 hand pulled photogravures. The North American Indian (1906-1928) is considered the most lavish and elegantly illustrated set of photographic books ever produced. This lot has the unique copper plate made for this publication under Curtis' supervision.