Prayer to the great mystery : the uncollected writings and photography of Edward S. Curtis

Author(s)

• Curtis, Edward S.
• Hausman, Gerald
• Kapoun, Robert W.
• Limerick, Patricia Nelson

Bibliographic Information

Prayer to the great mystery : the uncollected writings and photography of Edward S. Curtis

Edward S. Curtis ; text edited by Gerald Hausman ; photography edited by Bob Kapoun ; introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick

St. Martin's Press, 1995

• : pbk.

Note

Bibliographiy: p. 229

Index: p. 235-243

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Prayer to the Great Mystery" is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs--along with 150 others--taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and symphathetic, these images embody Curtis's attempt to preserve the character is Native American Cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis's ethnographic writings. "Prayers to the Great Mystery" is a stunning account of a vanished era, and a seminal book for understanding our rich Native American legacy.<br>

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Details

• NCID: BA62740950
• ISBN:
  • 0312135912
  • 0312169698
• LCCN: 95032877
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 245 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E77.5
  • DC20 : 970.004/97
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Indians of North America -- Folklore
  • LCSH : Indian mythology
  • LCSH : Legends -- North America