"The Apache", from The North American Indian: being a series of volumes picturing and describing...

Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what he perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental work, The North American Indian: being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, presented to the public an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and his photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indian. The work contained over 2000 photogravures in twenty volumes with accompanying portfolios and documented over 80 tribes. The efforts of Curtis were controversial, though – he was often criticized for staging scenes, rather than truly documenting native cultures.