CURTIS, Edward. The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1913.
CURTIS, Edward. The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1913.

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CURTIS, Edward. The North American Indian being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Field Research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. [Cambridge, Mass.], 1913.

Volume 9 of text, 4o (318 x 240 mm). 75 photogravures printed in sepia, on JAPANESE TISSUE. Unbound, uncut.

LIMITED EDITION, text volume 9 from one of 500 proposed sets (but probably only 272 sets produced), this copy in the rarest state on Japanese tissue and out-of-series, depicting the Salishan, Chimakun, Quilliute, and Willapa people, their habitats, and customs. [With:] A duplicate framed plate of "On Shoalwater Bay," from volume 9, on Van Gelder paper.

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