THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN 



BEING A SERIES OF VOLUMES PICTURING 

 AND DESCRIBING THE 



INDIANS of the UNITED STATES and ALASKA 



WRITTEN, ILLUSTRATED, AND PUBLISHED BY 



EDWARD S. CURTIS 



EDITED BY FOREWORD BY 



Frederick Webb Hodge President Theodore Roosevelt 



FIELD RESEARCH CONDUCTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF 



J. Pierpont Morgan 



THE work will consist of twenty volumes of text, and as illustrations em- 

 bodied with the text there will be fifteen hundred full-page photogravure 

 plates; forty, or more, of these, illustrating ceremonial subjects, will be 

 hand-colored plates. 



Each volume will consist of about 350, or more, quarto pages, measuring 

 9J x \2\ inches. 



The entire work will be printed on imported hand-made paper of the highest 

 grade, one part of the edition being Holland paper of a rich tone, and the other 

 part on Japanese vellum, both papers selected with special reference to their 

 enduring qualities. 



In addition to the twenty volumes of text and its illustrations, there will be 

 twenty portfolios, each consisting of thirty-six, or more, copper-plate photo- 

 gravures, measuring 12 x 16 inches, on 18 x 22 sheets. The entire work will, 

 therefore, contain a minimum total of twenty-two hundred and twenty plates 

 illustrative of Indian subjects. No pains has been spared to produce in every 

 detail an exceptional example of book-making. 



The binding is three-quarter Levant, gold top, and the portfolios bound to 

 match the book itself. 



The general editorial supervision has been intrusted to Mr. Frederick Webb 

 Hodge, ethnologist in the Smithsonian Institution and editor of the "American 

 Anthropologist." 



The series of volumes will comprise a descriptive and illustrative treatment 

 of all the Indians of the United States and Alaska who still retain to a consider- 

 able degree their primitive customs and beliefs. Each volume will be complete 

 in itself, inasmuch as it will treat of a tribe or a group of tribes quite independ- 

 ently of the others. 



It is planned to publish three volumes a year until the work is completed. 

 Delivery will be made as the volumes are issued; the entire set will be com- 

 pleted within seven years. 



Volumes I and II are now being delivered. In January, 1909, Volumes III, 

 IV and V will be ready for delivery. 



Librarians and private book-buyers who are interested in this work should consider 

 its acquisition at once, as it is anticipated that the coming few months will see that part 

 of the edition which is being sold at the patrons' price exhausted, and after such part of 

 the edition is sold the price on the remaining copies will be increased 20 per cent. 

 It should be remembered that this is positively a limited edition, and when the sub- 

 scription list is closed it will be impossible to secure it without buying from speculators 

 at a great advance on the present price. 



Where librarians feel that they cannot afford to subscribe for the work 

 at the present time, it is believed that a way can be suggested that they can add 

 it to their libraries. 



address all correspondence to 



EDWARD S. CURTIS, Care National Geographic Magazine,Washington, D. C. 



