Offered in this lot is an Edward S. Curtis Photogravure Print, "Cañon De Chelly - Navajo", Plate #28, from his monumental work, "The North American Indian", perhaps the most ambitious publication ever undertaken by a single man and has been widely hailed as a landmark in American publishing history. “A wonderfully scenic spot is this in northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navaho country – one of their strongholds, in fact. Cañon de Chelly exhibits evidences of having been occupied by a considerable number of people in former times, as in every niche at every side are seen the cliff-perched ruins of former villages”, E. S. Curtis. Edward Sherriff Curtis completed perhaps the earliest and most extensive photographic survey of the Native American tribes of the West. A Wisconsin native, Curtis moved to Seattle where he set up a photography studio and began to explore and photograph the settlements and peoples of the nearby Suquamish and Duwamish tribes. A watershed moment for Curtis occurred in 1906 when financier J. P. Morgan funded a major multi-year project that sent Curtis to photograph and otherwise record a wide range of American Indian tribes, with Curtis eventually taking more than 40,000 photographs of over 80 tribes. This monumental archive has become Curtis' lasting legacy long after his 1952 death, and his works have seen a revival in interest in recent years with scholars casting him as a visual anthropologist. Today, his photographs are found in public and private collections across the United States. The photogravure print is marked on the bottom, reading from left to right: Cañon De Chelly - Navajo, Fromm Copyright Photograph 1904 by E. S. Curtis, Ponail, Inc. P. O. Box 5665 TA, Denver, Colo. 80217, Dealers in Fine Art. This photogravure print is in nice condition, slight creases and stains exhibited on border, image appears clean, no marring observed. Measurements border to border are 14"W x 18"L.