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CURTIS, Edward Sheriff (American, 1868-1952). Group of Six Restrikes Signed by Deli Sacilotto. [Emiliano Sorini Studio/ Deli Sacilotto, ca 1975?]. Six original plate restrikes of Curtis’s 1904/1905 photogravures on engraving stock. All signed “Sacilotto’’ and dated 1975 recto. Curtis’s credit, photograph date, title, plate number, and original printmaker’s credit (John Andrew & Son) inscribed on plate. Five copies of Plate 119 (In the Bad Lands) and one copy of plate 79 (Sioux Chiefs) in Curtis’s Portfolio 3, “The North American Indian, Vol.3. The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin.” Overall approx 17 ¾ x 21 ¾”; plate 119 images 11 1/8 x 15 ½”; plate 79 approx. 12 x 15 ½”. Curtis’s captions for the images in Vol. 3: Plate 119: “This striking picture was made at Sheep Mountain in the Bad Lands of Pine Ridge reservation, South Dakota.” Plate 79”Very often two or three men would form themselves into a war-party and ride away to be gone weeks or months. Sometimes they returned with scalps or horses, or women; and again the war-party, whether large or small, met defeat and none survived to bring back to anxious wives and children the story of the disaster.” Deckle edges; slightly toned; very lightly soiled. Images present very well.