Edward S. Curtis
American Photographer · 1868–1952
168 works on LinkedCulture
A poor reverend's son growing up in Minnesota farm country, the teenage Edward Curtis built his first camera from scratch. The Curtis family moved to the Washington territory, and around 1892 the newly married Curtis bought his first photographic studio in Seattle for 150 borrowed dollars. It quickly became *the* place to be photographed. He later settled in Los Angeles, where he operated photogra
Works
A Bear Totem at Massett
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Buffalo-fall - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
A Child's Lodge - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
A Clayoquot Maiden
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Clayoquot Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Decaying Houseframe - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Favorite Cheyenne Costume
Getty Museum · 1911
A Grave-house - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
A Haida Girl
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Haida of Kung
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Haida of Massett
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Haida Shaman's Rattle
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Hesquiat Belle
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Makah Profile
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Makah Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Animal Dance - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
A Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Nootka Belle
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Paguate Entrance
Getty Museum · 1925
A Partially Cut Up Whale
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Piegan Home
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
![[A Piikani Man Dressed in Traditional Attire]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/16cf71cd-aec1-4fdf-abed-75fa45e53497/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[A Piikani Man Dressed in Traditional Attire]
Getty Museum · 1900
A Prairie Camp - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1909; print 1911
Arapaho Camp
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Arapaho Maiden
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Arapaho Water Girl
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Arapaho Youth
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
A Raven Totem at Yan
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Sea-Otter Hunter
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Shaman or Medicine Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Smoke - Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
A Woman of Hesquiat
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Woman of Kiusta - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Woman of Massett - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
A Woman of Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
![[A Young Chinook Woman]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/1acaf3a0-590d-4f01-ab6a-037a0c5005b7/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[A Young Chinook Woman]
Getty Museum · 1910
Before the Final Journey - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Before the Storm - Makah
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Beginning of the Altar - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Boston Cove
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Boughs for the Altar - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Buffalo-stones - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Building the Sun-lodge - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
By the Sea - Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Camp by a Prairie Lake - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Camp in the Foot-hills - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1905; print 1911
Cañon del Muerto - Navajo
Getty Museum · 1906
Canyon de Chelly
Getty Museum · 1904
Ceremonial Costume of Hemlock Boughs
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Ceremonial Preparation for Whaling
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Cheyenne Female Profile
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Cheyenne Female Type
Getty Museum · 1911
Cheyenne Man
Getty Museum · 1911
Cheyenne Matron
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Cheyenne Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Cheyenne Young Woman
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Chilkat Blanket, the Haida Ceremonial Robe
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Clayoquot Woman in Cedar-bark Hat
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Cooking Whale Blubber
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Costume of a Woman Shaman - Clayoquot
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Crazy Dancers - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Cutting the Centre-pole - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Dancing - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Dancing Mask - Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Day-dreams - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Departure from Preparation Lodge - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Devotees en Route - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Diegueño House at Santa Ysabel
Getty Museum · 1924
Diegueño House at Santa Ysabel
Getty Museum · 1924
Diegueño House at Santa Ysabel
Getty Museum · 1924
Dusty Dress - Kalispel
Getty Museum · 1910
Eagle Chief - Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Fastening the Harpoon Point
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Gathering Seaweed
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Gathering Seaweed
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Goldenrod Meadows - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Good Man - Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Gray Dawn - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
![[Great is my knowledge of the monster that writhes in the ocean's depths]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/abdca0cf-574c-456b-b474-a5ff487c2625/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Great is my knowledge of the monster that writhes in the ocean's depths]
Getty Museum · 1910–1914
Ḣahlkaiyáns, of Massett - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Haida Canoes
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Haida Slate Pipe
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Halibut Fishers - Neah Bay
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Harpooning
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Háyas, of Kayung - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Hesquiat Girl in Cedar-bark Costume
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Hesquiat Profile
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Íhltawat, of Massett - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
In the Lodge - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1909; print 1911
Kĭtkún, of Massett - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Koyáns - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Laguna Watchtower
Getty Museum · 1925
Lame Deer Monuments - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Lodge Interior - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Makah Basketry
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Medicine-bags - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Mother and Child - Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Mountain Chief - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
![[Navajo Flocks]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/e10969e5-a198-4136-9db5-dc5f1a1c0ff6/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Navajo Flocks]
Getty Museum · 1904
Navel-amulets - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Nootka Man
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Offering Pipe to the Earth - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Offering Pipe to the Skull - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Old Houses - Neah Bay
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
On Clayoquot Sound
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
On Little Powder River - Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Overlooking the Camp - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1909; print 1911
Paguate Watchtower
Getty Museum · 1925
Painting the Poles - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Piegan Camp
Getty Museum · negative 1905; print 1911
Piegan Dancers
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Piegan Girls
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Piegan Lodge
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Piegan War-bonnet and Coup-stick
Getty Museum · negative 1909; print 1911
Piegan Woman
Getty Museum · 1911
Priests Passing before Pipe - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Quiet Waters
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Raven Chief of Skidegate - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Ready to Throw the Harpoon
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Red Plume - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Return of Scouts - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Return to the Faster's Lodge - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1905; print 1911
Return with Boughs - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Return with Willows - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1905; print 1911
Running Owl - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Sepulture in a Post at Yan
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Shaman and Patient
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Shaman's Rattle - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
![[Sketch of a Native American Fish-Trap]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/c6c36f8a-ed05-4321-b4b1-e5b596f1337f/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Sketch of a Native American Fish-Trap]
Getty Museum · 1916
Slate Carvings Representing a Haida Shaman
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Stlĭṇá, of Massett - Haida
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Stone Grave - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Substitute Sacred Head-dress - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Sun Dance in Progress - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Sun Dance Pledgers - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · 1911
Súqitlaá
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Súqitlaá - Profile
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Susie Little - Hoopa Medicine Woman
Getty Museum · 1898–1924
Sweat-lodge Frame - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
The Altar - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
The Ancient Arapaho
Getty Museum · negative 1910; pring 1911
The Bear Costume - Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
The Crier - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1900; print 1911
The Grizzly-bear - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
The Lake at Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
The Makah
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
The Old Makah
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
The Pledger - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
The Potter
Getty Museum · 1906
The Shores of Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
The Sun-lodge - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1905; print 1911
The Whaler's Wife
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
The Whistler - Piegan
Getty Museum · negative 1905; print 1911
![[Three Feathers - A Nez Perce Native American]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/17074eb4-bc3f-4805-b209-c21493507513/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Three Feathers - A Nez Perce Native American]
Getty Museum · 1905
Totem at Yan, Representing a Caucasian
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Totems at Kung
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Totems at Yan
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Tsáḣwismia - Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Two Medicine River - Piegan
Getty Museum · 1911
Village of Nootka
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Village Scene - Neah Bay
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Waiting for the Seal
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Warrior Society Encircling Camp - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911
Watching the Dancers
Getty Museum · 1906
Whale Ceremonial
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Whaling Floats
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Woman Shaman Looking for Clairvoyant Visions - Clayoquot
Getty Museum · negative 1915; print 1916
Wood Gatherers - Cheyenne
Getty Museum · negative 1910; print 1911