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Performing ArchiveMain MenuVisualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. CurtisFront Page for Visualizing the "Vanishing Race" pathCurtis' Image and Life: The Network of The North American Indian, Inc.An experiment with data visualization approach to understand and contextualize Curtis' images and his lifeMedia, Technology and MediationsCurtis's Technology, Relationships to Media and StyleContextualizing Curtis, The North American Indian, and Racethe collection of essays from the contributorsConsulting with Tribes as Part of Archive DevelopmentIntroduction to Consulting with Tribes by Ulia GosartContributing ArchivesInformation on how to participate in Performing ArchiveBrowsing the MediaA path of paths that allow users to cut through the collection in a variety of ways.Acknowledgements and Project InformationProject NetworkJacqueline Wernimontbce78f60db1628727fc0b905ad2512506798cac8David J. Kim18723eee6e5a79c8d8823c02b7b02cb2319ee0f1Stephan Schonberg23744229577bdc62e9a8c09d3492541be754e1efAmy Borsukc533a79d33d48cbf428e1160c2edc0b38c50db19Beatrice Schustera02047525b31e94c1336b01e99d7f4f758870500Heather Blackmored0a2bf9f2053b3c0505d20108092251fc75010bfUlia Gosart (Popova)67c984897e6357dbeeac6a13141c0defe5ef3403
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12018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho1A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Cañon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied - one in Cañon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant.plain2018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Alhkidokihi - Navaho1One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.plain2018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hukalowapi ceremony1The subject of this picture is Saliva, an Ogalala Sioux, a priest of the Hukalowapi ceremony, which is fully described in Volume III, pages 71-87.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine fraternity1In this group are shown the principal participants in the reenactment of the Arikara medicine ceremony, which was given for the author's observation and study in July, 1908.plain2018-03-16T21:07:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony - Dance of the fraternity1After each order has performed its dance about the sacred cedar, the entire fraternity, group by group, emerges from the lodge and dances.plain2018-03-16T21:07:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Announcement - Arikara1Among the Missouri River Indians of the earthen lodges - the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara - the chiefs and priests made their announcements from the housetops. This picture is of Bear's Teeth standing on the roof of the ceremonial lodge in which occurred the medicine ceremony described in Volume V, pages 70-76.plain2018-03-16T21:07:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony - The Bears1After dancing around the sacred cedar, the members of the Bear order halt and complete their songs before reentering the medicine-lodge.plain2018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony - Dance of the black-tail deer1The two dark figures are painted in a manner suggesting the elk, the others the antelope.plain2018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony - The Ducks1Three members of the medicine fraternity, painted to represent ducks and holding the rushes among which waterfowl rest, in their dance around the sacred cedar.plain2018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine fraternity - The prayer1This impressive picture from the Arikara medicine ceremony shows the priests in a semi-circle about the sacred cedar.plain2018-03-16T21:07:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Travaux - Piegan1With the most of the plains tribes the travois was the universal vehicle for transporting camp equipment, but is now rarely seen. In the days before the acquisition of horses a smaller form of the same device was drawn by dogs. The occasion of this picture was the bringing of the sacred tongues to the medicine-lodge ceremony, as narrated in Volume VI, page 40.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Medicine-pipe - Piegan1Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and fur. Each one is believed to have been obtained long ago in some supernatural manner, as recounted in a myth. The medicine-pipe is ordinarily concealed in a bundle of wrappings, which are removed only when the sacred object is to be employed in healing sickness, or when it is to be transferred from one custodian to another in exchange for property. Such exchanges, occurring at intervals of a few years in the history of each pipe, are attended by much ceremonyplain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hamasaka in Tlu'wulahu costume with speaker's staff - Qagyuhl1The principal chief of the Qagyuhl is depicted in a "button blanket" (which is simply a woollen blanket ornamented with hundreds of large mother-of-pearl buttons), cedar-bark neck-ring, and cedar-bark head-band. His right hand grasps a shaman's rattle, and his left the carved staff which, as a kind of emblem of office, a man always holds when making a speech. The button designs along the edge of the blanket represent "coppers" (see page 144). The tlu'wulahu ceremony is described on page 243 of Volume X.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Wedding party - Qagyuhl1After the wedding ceremony at the bride's village the party returns to the husband's home. The newly married pair stand on a painted "bride's seat" in the stern of the canoe, and the bridegroom's sister or other relative, dances on a platform in the bow, while the men sing and rhythmically thump the canoes with the handles of their paddles.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Masked dancers - Qagyuhl1The plate shows a group of masked and costumed performers in the winter ceremony. The chief who is holding the dance stands at the left, grasping a speaker's staff and wearing cedar-bark neck-ring and head-band and a few of the spectators are visible at the right. At the extreme left is seen a part of the painted mawihl through which the dancers emerge from the secret room; and in the centre, between the carved house-posts, is the Awaitlala hams'pek, showing three of the five mouths through which the hamatsa wriggle from the top to the bottom of the column. See page 175 and footnote.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hesquiat maiden1The girl wears the cedar-bark ornaments that are tied to the hair of virgins on the fifth morning of their puberty ceremony, as described in Volume XI, page 42. The fact that the girl who posed for this picture was the prospective mother of an illegitimate child caused considerable amusement to the native onlookers and to herself.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Flute dancers at Tureva Spring1The Flute dance is a religious ceremony concerned with bringing rain. It represents the legendary arrival of the Flute people in the Hopi country, their friendly encounter with the clans already there, and the rain-making rites subsequently performed by them for the common good. The episode here represented was photographed at Middle mesa. The individual seated near the right end is an albino, not a white man.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hupa jumping dance costume1The Jumping dance was an annual ceremony for averting pestilence. The head-dress worn by the dancers was a wide band of deerskin with rows of red woodpecker crests and a narrow edging of white deer-hair sewn on it. A deerskin robe was worn as a kilt, and each performer displayed all the shells and beads he possessed or could borrow. In the right hand was carried a straw-stuffed cylinder with a slit-like opening from end to end, an object the significance of which is unknown to the modern Hupa.plain2018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tablita dancers and singers - San Ildefonso1The ceremony called Koheye-hyare ("tablita dance"), occurring in June and again in September, is characterized by public dancing and singing for the purpose of bringing rain-clouds. The name refers to wooden "tablets" worn by female dancers. (See Volume XVII, illustrations facing pages 56,60,62,64,66,68.) In the plate the performers are dancing in to the plaza, men and women alternating in pairs. At the right is the group of singers, their aged leader slightly in advance and the drummer at one side.plain2018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Zuni woman1Bowls of food are often thus carried on the head with a woven yucca ring during an intermission in or following a ceremony, when the participants feast.plain2018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara corn ceremony : bearing out the osiers1plain2018-03-16T21:07:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony : The bears1plain2018-03-16T21:07:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony : The buffalo1plain2018-03-16T21:07:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony : Night men dancing1plain2018-03-16T21:07:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Arikara medicine ceremony : The buffalo dancing1plain2018-03-16T21:07:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:08:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Dressing at Tawapa Spring, Walpi flute ceremony1plain2018-03-16T21:08:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
