Beschreibung:

Curtis, EdwardThe 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. Volume VI. [Cambridge, Mass.]: 1911
2 volumes, 4to (316 x 240 mm) and folio (570 x 450 mm). Large supplemental photogravure plates in sepia numbered 184-219 printed on Van Gelder Holland with deckle edges housed in original portfolio; a very good set of the plates with only plates 197, 208, 216 and 217 showing noticeable marginal offsetting. Text volume internally nearly fine, with 77 photogravures, only intermittent faint offsetting. Publisher's half morocco bindings, bright and unrubbed, but portfolio ties fraying. 
From number 198 of the original proposed edition of 500.
The Piegan, Cheyenne and Arapaho cultures from Curtis' landmark work. (See lots 1029 through 1037.)
(Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.)