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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
12018-03-16T21:13:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tribe PathsErik Loyer1Explore the Media by Tribestructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:13:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne type1The original of this portrait is Wako'yami ("his horse bobtailed") of the Northern Cheyenne.plain2018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Two Moons - Cheyenne1Two Moons was one of the Cheyenne chiefs at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, when Custer's command was annihilated by a force of Sioux and Cheyenne.plain2018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637At the ford - Cheyenne1The picture represents a party of warriors on the march. The scene is at Tongue river, in Montana.plain2018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Porcupine - Cheyenne1At the summer gatherings for such occasions as the Sun Dance, the men sometimes protect their heads from the merciless sun by a thatch of cottonwood leaves.plain2018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Camp in the cottonwoods - Cheyenne1The scene shows a single lodge pitched in one of the cottonwood groves in the bottoms along Tongue river, in Montana.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Waiting in the forest - Cheyenne1At dusk in the neighborhood of the large encampments young men, closely wrapped in non-comittal blankets or white cotton sheets, may be seen gliding about the tipis or standing motionless in the shadow of the trees, each one alert for the opportunity to steal a meeting with his sweetheart.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Little Wolf - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Story of the Washita1An Old Cheyenne warrior recounts the famous battle of the Washita in 1868, when the tribe was severely defeated by General Custer.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637On the Canadian River1The name of the Canadian river was not derived from any association with Canada or the Canadians, but from the Spanish cañada, on account of the high, cut banks of the stream. The Canadian originally divided the lands claimed by the Quapaw on the south and those of the Great and Little Osage on the both. The Indians in the picture are Cheyenne.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne sun-dance lodge1For an account of the Sun-dance ceremony and the erection of the lodge among the Southern Cheyenne, see Volume XIX, pages 121-128.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hotamitaye Society, Cheyenne sun-dance1The members of this and other bands, which were created by the Prophet of Cheyenne legend, go to the forest for the poles with which to build the lodge. While in the forest they decorate themselves and their horses with willow branches, leaving the rearmost horsemen to drag the poles to camp.plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Water rite purification, Cheyenne animal dance1The legend of the Animal dance is given on pages 133-135 of Volume XIX.plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637At the pool, animal dance - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne chief1The Cheyenne belong to the Algonquian linguistic family and therefore are related to the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and to the Arapaho of the north, and, much more remotely, to many of the tribes that once lives along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Midwest. They are now divided into the Northern Cheyenne, living in Montana, and the Southern Cheyenne who were assigned a reservation in the present Oklahoma in 1867.plain2018-03-16T21:07:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne costume1This woman's deerskin costume, ornamented with porcupine-quill embroidery and with beads and fringe, is characteristic of that of the Cheyenne; but such is now worn only on gala occasions and probably ere very long will be a thing of the past.plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Dog woman - Cheyenne1The woman's dress is embellished with elk-teeth.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Woista - Cheyenne woman1Remarkable strength of character is depicted in the features of this woman, and indeed in those of all the Cheyenne. Their former life was such that only the fittest could survive.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Black Belly - Cheyenne1The extreme age of this Cheyenne is quite apparent.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Old warrior - Arapaho1The Arapaho, of Algonquian stock like the Cheyenne, are divided into Northern and a Southern tribe, the former living on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming and the latter on the reservation assigned to them and the Cheyenne in the present Oklahoma in 1867.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Return of scouts - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Warrior society encircling camp - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cutting the centre pole - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Return with boughs - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Boughs for the altar - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Departure from preparation lodge - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Offering pipe to the earth - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Offering pipe to the skull - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Priests passing before the pipe - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Painting the poles - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Devotees en route - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Building the sun lodge - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Beginning of the altar - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:10:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne young woman1plain2018-03-16T21:10:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Wife of Old Crow - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:09:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Black Wolf - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Wife of Howling Wolf - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Man On The Cloud - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Chiefs in the sun dance parade - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hivihhnihpoih Society, Cheyenne sun dance1plain2018-03-16T21:09:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hefatyu Society, Cheyenne sun dance1plain2018-03-16T21:09:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Preparatory lodge, Cheyenne sun dance1plain2018-03-16T21:09:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:09:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Interior of sun dance lodge - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:09:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637