Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis

Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis image
ISBN-10:

0312169698

ISBN-13:

9780312169695

Author(s): Edward S. Curtis
Edition: First Edition
Released: Oct 15, 1997
Format: Paperback, 245 pages
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Description:

Prayer to the Great Mystery is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs--along with 150 others--taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and symphathetic, these images embody Curtis's attempt to preserve the character is Native American Cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis's ethnographic writings. Prayers to the Great Mystery is a stunning account of a vanished era, and a seminal book for understanding our rich Native American legacy.











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