Jajuk-Selawik, Edward S. Curtis Photograph on Notecard, 1928
Entry/Object ID
AM1979.1.67
Scope and Content
Jajuk-Selawik, Edward S. Curtis Photograph on Notecard, 1928. Close-up of head of Eskimo surrounded by fur of parka hood.
Note on back of card:
In 1900 a young photographer named Edward S. Curtis left Seattle with a cumbersome 14 x 17 inch camera for Indian country. He was determined to record for posterity every phase of Indian life. He travelled thousands of miles by horse and wagon, enduring every kind of hardship in order to visit more than 100 Indian nations, from the Mexican border to the Artic Circle. Thirty years and 40,000 photographs later, Curtis completed his remarkable achievement, the most comprehensive pictorial record of the North American Indian.
The St. Joseph Museum has 52 reprints of Curtis's work in addition to these notecards.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Notecard
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Writing Media
Nomenclature Class
Written Communication T&E
Nomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Art
Search Terms
Edward Curtis Indian Photographs, North American, Native American Photographs, Selawik, Eskimo
