EDWARD S. CURTISS – Big Head

The photo was taken about 1905

Edward Sheriff Curtiss (16.2.1868-19.10.1952) was an American photographer and ethnographer, who portrayed the Indians and their country from the year 1900, and thirty years to come. Edward Curtiss, or Shadow Hunter, as some of the tribes called him, took in this period over 40,000 images of countless native from Eskimos in the North to the Hopi Indians in the Southwest.