Features selections of photographs and tribal stories recorded and preserved by the author in his 20-volume masterpiece, "The North American Indian", offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.

The work of Edward Curtis captures forever the images, myths, and histories of a vanishing age. The Image Taker features essential selections of photographs and the seldom- seen tribal stories recorded and preserved by Curtis in his 20-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian, offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.