Edward S. Curtis & the North American Indian | 2017

A photographic exhibition held at the Art Palace of Georgia – Museum of Cultural History offered a perspective on the spiritual beliefs and ritual traditions of Native American cultures through the lens of Edward S. Curtis. The exhibition featured selected photographs and a video recording from Curtis’s thirty-year, twenty-volume project, The North American Indian, a landmark undertaking that aimed to document Indigenous cultures across North America.
The exhibition was initiated by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia and organized in collaboration with the Library of Congress’s Interpretive Programs Office and Prints and Photographs Division.