Item #51-2079 Primitive Quinault. Portfolio plate no. 293. (Large format supplementary plate for The North American Indian). Edward Sheriff Curtis.
Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952)

Primitive Quinault. Portfolio plate no. 293. (Large format supplementary plate for The North American Indian)

Cambridge, MA: 1912. Photogravure. brown ink ; 36 x 44 cm [plate size]
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; sheets: 22 x 18 in or the reverse.

"Among the Coast Salish the aboriginal dress of women was a knee-length kilt of thick, cedar-bark fringe. No other garment was worn except when cold or rain made goat-hair or vegetal-fibre blankets or capes desireable.."


The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.09, Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1913), plate no. 293. Item #51-2079

Price: $2,500.00

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