North American Indians 



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whole work published. It is estimated 

 that the field work will cost about $250,- 

 00c. The following is quoted from the 

 preface to the first volume which will be 

 issued in September. 



"It is the purpose of this series of vol- 

 umes to give a complete record of all the 

 tribes of North American Indians within 

 the limits of the United States that are 

 at the date of these studies (1898-1911) 

 living in anything like a primitive con- 

 dition. 



"Atl phases of the Indian life are pic- 

 tured — the Indians and their environ- 

 ment, the types of the old and young, 

 their primitive home-structure, their 

 handicrafts, their ceremonies, games, and 

 customs — with an object, first to truth, 

 then to art composition. 



"In these illustrations there is no mak- 

 ing of pictures for pictures' sake. Each 

 must be what it purports to be. A Sioux 

 must be a Sioux and an Apache an 

 Apache ; in fact, every picture must be 

 an ethnographic record. Being photo- 

 graphs from life and nature, they show 

 what exists, not what one in the artist's 

 studio presumes might exist. 



"It is not the purpose of these volumes 

 to theorize on the probable origin of the 

 Indian. This is what he is, not whence he 

 came. The years of my life and the mag- 

 nitude of the work preclude the possi- 

 bility of going into the complete detail of 

 many questions raised by the different 

 tribes. However, it is possible to treat 

 the life so fully as to show future gen- 

 erations broadlv what each group was 

 like." 



The publication will consist of twenty 

 volumes of text, accompanied with fifteen 

 hundred full-page photogravures. Sev- 

 eral of the photogravures in each volume 

 will be hand-colored plates of ceremonial 

 subjects. 



Each volume will consist of about 350 

 pages, measuring gjA x I2j4 inches. The 

 best imported hand-made paper will be 

 used, one selected particularly for its last- 

 ing qualities. 



As a supplement to the twenty volumes, 

 there will be twenty portfolios, each con- 



taining thirty-six of the large pictures, 

 12 X 16, or in the complete set there will 

 be seven hundred and twenty large pic- 

 tures and fifteen hundred of the small, 

 making a grand total of twenty-two hun- 

 dred and twenty, these all to be of the 

 ver^r best photogravure work. 



Mr. Frederick Webb Hodge, of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and editor of 

 the "American Anthropologist," is the 

 editor of the work. President Theodore 

 Roosevelt has written the "Foreword." 



It is published in parts, each part being 

 complete in itself, treating of certain 

 tribes. Parts will be delivered as com- 

 pleted, the plan being to publish an aver- 

 age of three a year and the work com- 

 pleted within seven years. 



The first two volumes, which will ap- 

 pear in September, treat of the Apaches, 

 Jicarillas, and Navahoes. Volume 2 will 

 cover the many tribes in southwestern 

 Arizona and in the Colorado, Gila, and 

 Salt River valleys. The different Sioux 

 tribes of North and South Dakota will 

 come next in order in volume 2, and vol- 

 ume 4 will treat of the tribes of eastern 

 Montana. The fifth volume will depict 

 the tribes of western Montana and Idaho, 

 and the sixth the tribes of eastern Wash- 

 ington. 



Other volumes will take up the Mis- 

 sion Indians of southern California, the 

 aborigines of northern California and 

 Oregon ; those on the northern Pacific 

 coast and Puget Sound and the coast In- 

 dians of Alaska and the Pacific coast. 

 One will be devoted to the Hopis and 

 one to the other different Pueblo tribes. 

 There probably will be a volume on the 

 Seminoles of Florida, and Canada will 

 have, without doubt, one volume which 

 will practically be what might be called 

 a treatise on the "Wood Indians." The 

 final volumes will take up the tribes in 

 Oklahoma and Indian Territory. 



President Roosevelt has written the 

 "Foreword" which follows : 



"In Mr Curtis we have both an artist 

 and a trained observer, whose pictures 

 are pictures, not merely photographs; 

 whose work has far more than mere ac- 



