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Heading: Author: Curtis, Edward S. Title: King Island Village Place Published: Cambridge, MA Publisher:Suffolk Engraving Company Date Published: 1928 Description: Photogravure on watermarked Van Gelder Zonen sheet. Image: 29x39.1 cm (11½x15½”); sheet: 45x55.7 cm (17¾x22”). Original photogravure, being plate 701 from Portfolio 20 in Curtis‘ massive The North American Indian. Portfolio 20 included: The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik. ”The settlement consists of only twenty-nine houses, built irregularly on seven terraces, the lowest about eighty or a hundred feet above sea-level.”