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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.
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Edward S. Curtis was obsessed with recording information about Native Americans: he believed their culture might simply disappear without a trace. More than 100 years ago, he took his first photographs of Native Americans, and for decades he traveled extensively, snapping pictures and taking copious notes on their ways of life. Prayer to the Great Mystery contains dozens of Curtis's photos that were discovered in the files of the Library of Congress, as well as many previously known prints, some of which are considered masterpieces of photographic art. The text, taken from Curtis's voluminous writings on Native Americans provides priceless accounts of how they lived on the Great Plains, in the Southwest, and in the Pacific Northwest.
About the Author
Gerald Hausman is the author of more than a dozen books about Native American culture, including Tunkashila and Turtle Island Alphabet.
Bob Kapoun is the preeminent collector and dealer of Curtis photographs. His gallery, the Rainbow Man is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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- PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0312169698
- ISBN 13 9780312169695
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages245
- EditorGerarld Hausman, Bob Kapoun
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