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The North American Indian, List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Ten
A portfolio of around thirty large, unbound plates was produced to complement each volume. Each includes a sheet of captions entitled "List of large plates supplementing volume . . .]". Apparently Curtis and his staff selected the most artistic views to be reproduced as the portfolio prints, which averaged 11 x 14 inches on large sheets. Many are portraits. The portfolios are not cited in the volume table of contents or indexes. But occasional volume footnotes cite a portfolio plate, and a few plate captions refer back to the volume narrative, especially for biographical information on portrait subjects. The plates are numbered consecutively, totaling 722.
31 prints from the portfolio were bound by SAM sometime between 1983 and 1986. The original portfolio consisted of 36 photogravures.
