When American photographer Edward Curtis's 20-volume monumental study The North American Indian resurfaced in popular culture in the 1960s, the photogravure prints in the volumes were cut out and sold individually. If Curtis was still alive when this happened I'm sure it would have horrified him because he intended text and image as one.

I imagined that if I had the opportunity to rebind the separated prints, would I order them as they were before, or would I intervene? I feel that Curtis did not see his work as a definitive study of Indian-ness. Based upon his experiences with the sitters, I believe that Curtis thought that there was potential for The North American Indian project to engage in a future dialogue with their descendents. Technology has allowed me to \"rebind\" Curtis's images and bridge the void between myth and reality.