Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis - Gerald Hausman

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-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.Hausman, Gerald is the author of 'Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis - Gerald Hausman' with ISBN 9780312135911 and ISBN 0312135912.