(1868-1952)
Beginning in 1900 and continuing for thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the "Shadow Catcher" as he was later called by some of the tribes, took over 40,000 images and recorded rare, ethnographic information from over eighty American Indian tribal groups including the Hopi people of the Southwest. Curtis captured the likeness of many important and well-known Indian people of the time, including Geronimo and Medicine Crow. One of Curtis' major goals was to record as much of the Native traditional life as possible.