Edward S Curtis
Arikara Medicine Ceremony - Dance of the Fraternity, plate #158, 1908
Photogravure
13.25 x 17 in
Framed: 22.75 x 25.25 in
$500
Cambridge MA: 1908. Photogravure. Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son Plate from the large format portfolio series on hand-made Van Gelder printed by John Andrew & Son each plate margin with printed title date and plate number also with Curtis' copyright and printers' credit .each plate impress: approx. 16 3/4 x 14 or 12 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. "After each order has performed its dance about the sacred cedar the entire fraternity group by group emerges from the lodge and dances." The North American Indian 1907-1930 v.05 The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina Seattle : E.S. Curtis ; Cambridge Mass. : The University Press 1909 plate no. 158