Morgan was a patron to photographer Edward S. Curtis, offering Curtis $75,000 in 1906, to create a series on the American Indians. Curtis eventually published a 20-volume work entitled "The North American Indian". Curtis also produced a motion picture, "In the Land of the Head Hunters" (1914), which was restored in 1974 and re-released as "In the Land of the War Canoes". Curtis was also famous for a 1911 magic lantern slide show "The Indian Picture Opera" which used his photos and original musical compositions by composer Henry F. Gilbert.