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Author Lyman, Christopher M.

Title The vanishing race and other illusions : photographs of Indians by Edward S. Curtis / Christopher M. Lyman ; introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr
Edition First edition
Published Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1982]
©1982

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 W'PONDS  970.004970222 Lym  AVAILABLE
Description 158 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Contents Preface -- Introduction / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- The critical question: What is the Indian? -- The emergence of photography and the movement toward photographic art -- Getting into good society -- How the Indian was made -- Picturesque Indians -- Business energy and perseverance -- More picturesque Indians -- Because the situation demands it -- Chronology
Notes "Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... organized and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service"--Verso t.p
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 155-156
Subject Indians of North America -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Author Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952.
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
LC no. 81607152
ISBN 0874746221