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And for those who need a refresher on Curtis, here ya go.

YES. His project was remarkable and his photographs provide a visual record of many ancestors.

BUT ALSO the way he staged props and made some Indians play dress up with regalia from other tribes, edited out modern things like clocks and cars, and generally romanticized what he viewed as a race of people about to go extinct, did so much fucking damage when it came down to media representations of natives in the USA.

https://hyperallergic.com/383706/a-critical-understanding-of-edward-curtiss-photos-of-native-american-culture/