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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952) The Moose Hunter - Cree, pl. 623, from The North American Indian, Portfolio XVIII. 1926. Photogravure, the image measuring 11⅝x15⅝ inches (29.5x39.7 cm.), the sheet 19¼x23⅜ inches (48.9x59.4 cm.), with Curtis' printed credit, title, date, plate number, and the printer's credit on recto.
Provenance The Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
"Cree hunters are masters of the art of imitating, by means of a birch bark trumpet, the call of a moose of either sex, and thus luring within gunshot an animal seeking a mate during the rutting season." (Curtis, List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eighteen)
