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Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curits
Prayer to the Great Mystery The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S Curits Author:Edward S. Curtis 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-... more »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.« less