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Edward S. Curtis Small Print Originals

Enjoy browsing our Small Prints archive of original Edward S. Curtis photographs and be sure to check back often for new arrivals

Size: 9.5″ X 12.5″ – Image Size Approximately 7.5″ X 5.5″

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Volume 1 - The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho.

Das Lan (Apache) (1907)
Pikehodiklad (Navaho) (1907)
Navaho medicine-man (1904)

Volume 2 - The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai

Palo verde (1907)
Kiho carrier (Qahatika) (1907)
Primitive transportation (Mohave) (1907)
A Yuma type (1907)
Hipah (Mohave) (1907)
Hipa (Maricopa) (1907)
Havachach Weaving (Maricopa) (1907)
Nerije (Walapai) (1907)
IHavasupai basket maker (1903)
An Apache-Mojave woman (1907)
Tokopala (Walapai) (1907)

Volume 3 - The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin.

Scalp-shirts (1908)
Daughter of American Horse (1908)
After the snow (1908)
Returned Scout (Ogalala) (1907)
Good Day Woman (Ogalala) (1907)
Gray Bear (Yanktonai) (1908)
Winter-count first period (1908)
Winter-count 1701-1727 (1908)

Volume 4 - The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa

Packhorse (Apsaroke) (1908)
The sun dancer (Apsaroke) (1908)
The scout (Apsaroke) (1908)

Volume 5 - The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina

Volume 6 - The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho

Two Medicine River (Piegan) (1911)
A buffalo-fall (Piegan) (1910)
Piegan woman (1911)
A grave-house (Piegan) (1911)
A Piegan home (1910)
Navel-amulets (Piegan) (1911)
Goldenrod meadows (Piegan) (1911)
The crier (Piegan) (1900)
The Pledger (Piegan) (1910)
Return with willows (Piegan) (1905)
Substitute sacred head-dress (Piegan) (1910)
The Whistler (Piegan) (1905)
The sun lodge (Piegan) (1905)
Day-dreams (Piegan) (1911)
Piegan girls (1910)
Buffalo-stones (Piegan) (1911)
Cheyenne woman (1910)
Cheyenne matron (1910)
Cheyenne female Profile (1910)
Cheyenne female type (1911)
Warrior society encircling camp (Cheyenne) (1910)
Cutting the centre pole (Cheyenne) (1910)
Return with boughs (Cheyenne) (1911)
Boughs for the altar (Cheyenne) (1911)
Departure from Preparation lodge (1910)
Offering pipe to the skull (Cheyenne) (1910)
Priests passing before the pipe (Cheyenne) (1910)
Painting the poles (Cheyenne) (1910)
Before the.final journey (1910)
Animal dance (Cheyenne) (1910)
Sweat-lodge frame (Cheyenne) (1910)
Building the sun lodge (Cheyenne) (1911)
Beginning of the altar (Cheyenne): (1911)
The altar (Cheyenne) (1910)
Gray Dawn (Cheyenne) (1910)
Dancing (Cheyenne) (1911)
A smoke (Arapaho) (1910)
Good Man (Arapaho) (1910)
Arapaho camp (1910)
Eagle Chief f Arapaho) (1910)
Arapaho water girl (1910)
Stone grave (Cheyenne) (1910)

Volume 7 - The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai

Camp in the forest (Kutenai) (1910)
The root digger (Yakima) (1909)
Sons of a Yakima chief (1910)
Mnainak (A Yakima chief) (1910)
A holiday lodge (Yakima) (1910)
Kalispel youth (1910)

Volume 8 - The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes

Nez Perce--matron (1910)
A young Nez Perce (1910)
A young Umatilla (1910)
U matilla child (1910)
Cayuse profile (1910)
Falling On The Land (Cayuse) (1910)
Chinook female profile (1910)
Wishham beadwork (1910)
Pounding fish (Wishham) (1909)
Bone carving (Cascade) (1910)
Wishham man (1910)
Below the cascades (1910)
Map of the Nez Perce territory ()
Wishham handicraft (1909)
The rock slide (Wishham) (1909)

Volume 9 - The Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa

Skokomish baskets (1912)
Goathair blanket (Cowichan) (1912)
A Cowichan mask (1912)

Volume 10 - The Kwakiutl

Nimkish village at Alert Bay (1914)
A housefront (Awaitlala) (1914)
A "begged-from" cedar (1914)
Preparing cedar-bark (Nakoaktok) (1914)
A Tsawatenok house-front (1914)
A Koskimo house (1914)
A Koskimo dandy (1914)
Front interior posts of a Koskimo house (1914)
A Kwaustums village (1914)
The octopus catcher (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Tenaktak house, Harbledown Island (1914)
At Memkumlis (1914)
Kwaustums village, Gilford Island (1914)
A Mamalelekala chiefs mortuary (1914)
Tsawatenok treeburial (1914)
Mamalelekala cemetery on Village Island (1914)
Kekuhtlala (Koeksotenog) (1914)
Naemahlpunkuma (Hahuamis) (1914)
Lagyus (Tsawatenok) (1914)
Tlahleelis (Konrino) (1914)
Gyakum (Koskimo) (1914)
Nakoaktok warrior (1914)
Crossing the strait (1914)
Embarking (1914)
Crests of a Nimkish family (1914)
Tenaktak crest posts, (Harbledown Island) (1914)
Nakoaktok chief and copper (1914)
Pagusilahl emerging from the woods (Qagvuhl) (1914)
Kalogutsuis (Koskimo) (1914)
Nunalalahl (Oagyuhl) (1914)
Pagusilahl (Qagyuhl) (1914)
A Nakoaktok mawihl (1914)
A Nakoaktok mawihl (1914)
Nunhltsistalahl (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Hamatsa (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Nane (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Tsunukwalahl (Qagyuhl) (1914)
A Hamatsa costume (Nakoaktok) (1914)
Grizzlv-bear dancer (Qagvulil) (1914)
Sisiutl dancer (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Nuhlimahla (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Hamasilahl (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Qunhulahl (Qagyuhl) (1914)
KwahwumhL (Koskimo) (1914)
A Tluwulahu costume (Qagyul) (1914)
Mask of octopus hunter (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Waswaslikyi (Qagyuhl) (1914)
Thunderbirds and whales (1914)
A Koeksotenok house-front (1914)
A Tsunukwa at Kwaustums (1914)
The octopus hunter (Qagyuhl) (1914)

Volume 11 The Nootka. The Haida.

A Nootka belle (1915)
Whale ceremonial (1915)
Whaling floats (1915)
The whaler's wife (1915)
Fastening the harpoon Qoint (1915)
A woman of Hesguiat (1915)
A partially cut up whale (1915)
Cooking whale blubber (1915)
Hesguiat girl in cedar-bark costume (1915)
Hesguiat profile (1915)
Sugitlaa (1915)
Sugitlaa profile (1915)
A shaman or medicine woman (1915)
Costume of a woman shaman (Clayoguot) (1915)
Shaman and patient (1915)
Old houses: Neah Bay (1915)
Clayoguot woman in cedar-bark hat (1915)
A Hesquiat Belle (1915)
Gathering seaweed (1915)
Before the storm (Makah) (1915)
The shores of the Nootka (1915)
Quiet waters (1915)
Dancing Mask (Nootka) (1915)
Ceremonial costume of hemlock boughs (1915)
A Clayoguot woman (1915)
Gathering seaweed (1915)
The Old Makah (1915)
A Makah profile (1915)
A Makah Woman (1915)
The Makah (1915)
Nootkaman (1915)
A woman of Nootka (1915)
A Haida of Kung (1915)
A raven totem at Yan (1915)
Totems at Yan (1915)
Totems at Kung (1915)
A bear totem at Massett (1915)
Totem at Yan, representing a Caucasian (1915)
Sepulture in a post at Yan (1915)
A decaying houseframe (Haida) (1915)
A Haida of Massett (1915)
Haida canoes (1915)
Slate carvings representing a Haida shaman (1915)
A Haida Shaman's Rattle (1915)
I Shaman's rattle (Haida) (1915)
Chilkat blanket, the Haida ceremonial robe (1915)
Stlina, of Massett (Haida) (1915)
Hahlkaiyans, of Massett (Haida) (1915)
Kitkun, of Massett (Haida) (1915)
A Haida Girl (1915)
Ihltawat, of Massett (Haida) (1915)
Hayas, of Kayung (Haida) (1915)
A woman of Massett (Haida) (1915)
Haida slate pipe (1915)

Volume 12 - The Hopi

A visitor (1921)
Hotavila (1921)
Hopi architecture (1921)
Oraibi plagues (1921)
A Hopi flock (1921)
Grinding meal (1907)
A Hopi woman (1905)
A Hopi mother (1906)
Pele (Tewa) (1921)
Tsetsantt (Tewa) (1921)
Pulini and Koyame (Walpi) (1921)
Kachina dolls (1921)
Shipaulovi snake kiva (1906)
A snake priest (1907)
Waipi snake chief (1921)
The prayer (1907)
Snake griest entering the kiva (1921)
Guarding the snake kiva (1907)
Snakes and antelopes at Oraibi (1921)
Depositing snakes in the circle of meal (1906)
Oraibi snake dance (1921)

Volume 13 - The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath

Hupa man (1923)
Hupa woman (1923)
Hupa purses and money (1923)
Hupa house (1923)
Huna sweat-house (1923)
Broken fish-weir (1923)
Sticks used in Huna guessing game (1923)
Hupa woman dress (1923)
Hupa basket and purses (1923)
Hupa fisherman (1923)
Hupa female shaman (1923)
White deerskin dance costume (Hupa) (1923)
Dancer with black deer effigy (Hupa) (1923)
Obsidian bearer White deerskin dance (Hupa) (1923)
Modern Hupa house (1923)
Watching for salmon (Hupa) (1923)
Hupa canoe (1923)
Hupa salmon-fishing (1923)
The forest stream (1923)
Hupa war-chief (1923)
A house Wakhtek (Yurok) (1923)
Yurok houses at-Wietspus (1923)
Entrance to a Yurok sweat-house (1923)
Modern Yurok house (1923)
Yurok house on Klamath River (1923)
Bob Peters2 Trinidad Yurok (1923)
Weitchpec George (Yurok) (1923)
A Yurok widow (1923)
A Yurok cemetery (1923)
In the shadow (Yurok) (1923)
Om sweat-house walls at Orleans bar (Karok) (1923)
The mush-basket (Karok) (1923)
Karok woman (1923)
Old Bob (Karok) (1923)
Tolowa man (1923)
On the shores of the Pacific (Tolowa) (1923)
Tolowa tattooing (1923)
A Totowa (1923)
Elk-horn spoons (Tolowa) (1923)
Measuring shell money (Tolowa) (1923)
Tolowa type (1923)
Achomawi summer hut (1923)
An Achomawi (1923)
Klamath child (1923)
Gathering basket material (Klamath) (1923)
Klamath woman (1923)
A Klamath costume (1923)
A Klamath profile (1923)
Day dreams, Crater Lake (1923)
A Klamath in costume (1923)
The wokas harvest (Klamath) (1923)
A Klamath head-dress (1923)

Volume 14 - The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Porno. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts

A Yuki woman (1924)
A mixed-blood Coast Pomo (1924)
A chief (Chukchansi Yokuts) (1924)

Volume 15 - Southern California Shoshoneans. The Dicguefios. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo

Site of a prehistoric village (Cahuilla) (1924)
A Mono type (1924)
Western shore of Walker Lake (1924)
Marcos-Palm Canon Cahuilla (1924)
A man of Palm Springs (Cahuilla) (1924)

Volume 16 - The Tiwa. The Keres

Ain Isleta woman (1925)
Native drawings of Santo Domimingo masks ()
Excavated ruins at Gyusiwa (1925)

Volume 17 - The Tewa. The Zufii

Winnowing wheat (San Juan) (1905)

Volume 18 - The Chipewyan. The Western woods Cree. The Sarsi

A Chipewyan tipi (1926)
Nasurethur (Chipewyan) (1926)
Nasurethur, profile (Chipewyan) (1926)
A Chipewyan woman (1926)
A Cree (1926)
Cree fishing camp (1926)
Picking blueberries (Cree) (1926)
A Piegan woman (1926)
Niukska Stamik (1926)
An old woman (Blood) (1926)
Atso Tohkomi ("Call-on-all-sides") (Blood) (1926)
A typical Blackfoot (1926)
A Blackfoot woman (1926)
Blackfoot cookery (1926)
Isqe-sis (''Woman Small") and child (Cree ) (1926)
Landing (Cree) (1926)
Mawinehikis ("Tries-to-excel") (Cree) (1926)
L ac les Isles (Cree) (1926)
Wapistan ("Marten'') (Cree) (1926)
Napeu ("Man") (1926)
Cree woman with, fur robe (1926)
Typical female physiognomy (Sarsi) (1926)
Ka'ni (Sarsi) (1926)
A Sarsi woman (1926)
Missi-tsatsa ("Owl Old-woman") (Sarsi) (1926)
Modern Blackfoot burial (1926)
Bow River and the sandhills (Blackfoot) (1926)
A medicine-bag (Blackfoot) (1926)
Offerings in the sun-lodge (Piegan) (1926)
Centralpost of the sun-lodge (Piegan) (1926)
Oksox-Apiw ("Raw-eater Old-man") (Blackfoot) (1926)
Itsipstsinikyi ("Kills-inside") (Piegan) (1926)
Woman's costume and babv swing (AsSihi (1926)
Painted tipis (Assiniboin) (1926)
A Piegan tipi (1926)
Lodge of the Horn Society (Blood) (1926)

Volume 19 - The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote cult

Braided squash (Wichita) (1927)
Skidi and Wichita dancers (1927)
Cheyenne footwear (1927)
Red Bird (Cheyenne) (1927)
Man On The Cloud (Cheyenne) (1927)
Drying meat (Cheyenne) (1927)
Hefatyu Society, Cheyenne sun dance (1927)
Animal dance (Cheyenne) (1927)
The wolf, animal dance (Cheyenne) (1927)
Healing rite of the Deer society. animal dance (Cheyenne) (1927)
White Elk (Oto) (1927)
Comanche footwear (1927)
Oscar Makes Cry (Ponca) (1927)
Frame of Peyote sweat-lodge (1927)

Volume 20 - The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik

Girl's costume, Nunivak (1928)
Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak (1928)
Nunivak youth (1928)
Kaiak on racki (1928)
Kaiak with seal hunting equipment, Nunivak (1928)
Herring racks, Nunivak (1928)
Kenowun, Nunivak (1928)
Dahchihtok (1928)
Jukuk, Nunivak (1928)
Ukowuhhuh Booker Bay (1928)
A grave-post, Hooker Bay (1928)
On the cliff edge, King' Island (1928)
Housetops, King Island (1928)
Walrus boats. Big Diomede in distance (1928)