In a Sacred Manner We Live

Name/Title

In a Sacred Manner We Live

Entry/Object ID

2009.3.91

Description

In a Sacred Manner We Live is a collection of Photographs of the North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis who spent 25 years of his life to the development of a photographic and ethnographic record of the Indian peoples of western North America. His work expanded from the late 18th Century into the 19th Century. Among Curtis' works are a 20 volume set picturing and describing the Indians of the U.S. and Alaska with the encouragement of President Theodore Roosevelt and under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. Introduction and commentary by Don Fowler, Director of the Western Studies Center of the Desert Research Institute and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno. This book is from the Don Reynolds library. 152/Hardbound/Photographs

Collection

Don and Maudie Reynolds Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Native American Photographs, Native American, Oglala, Mandan, Cheyenne, Comanche, Apache, Hopi, Chinook, Nez Perce, Native American Lifestyle

Book Details

Author

Edward S. Curtis

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1972

Call No.

Ethnology CU

LCCN

73-185614

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Excellent

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Don Fowler