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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Two Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Saguaro harvest - Pima
2. Pima baskets The baskets made by the Pima, Papago, and Qahatika, as well as by their Maricopa neighbors, are practically identical in form and design, but the Maricopa basketry is of somewhat superior workmanship. The four-armed cross, a form of the swastika, appears as the central feature in the decoration of a majority of the Piman and Maricopa baskets of to-day, and while the true signification here is not known with certainty, it is not impossible that it was designed originally to represent the winds of the four cardinal directions. Less than a generation ago the swastika was employed by the Pima to decorate their shields, and as a brand for their horses.
3. Kaviu - Pima
4. Burden-bearer - Pima
5. Pima woman
6. Pima ki The old-time round dwelling of the Pima tribes. In construction it was much the same as the earth lodge of the tribes of the northern plains, the chief difference lying in the fact that its top is practically flat and it is not provided with an opening for the escape of the smoke, as well as in the lack of an extended or built-out entrance way. The ki was usually about 15 feet in diameter. As the winter climate of southern Arizona is very mild, only a small fire was needed to keep the ki warm in even the coldest weather, the smoke from which became absorbed in part by the earthen roof, or escaped through the doorway.
7. Pima matron
8. Chijako - Pima
9. Papago girl A particularly fine-looking Papago girl of as nearly pure blood as can be found in the region. The northern Piman tribes have been in direct contact with Spanish people for more than two centuries. Much of the early foreign blood, however, has become so blended that its physical influence is no longer apparent. Indeed there are many instances in which the Indians insist that their blood is entirely aboriginal, whereas in fact an infusion of alien blood is traceable several generations back.
10. Gathering hanamh - Papago Hanamh is the Piman name for the cholla cactus and its fruit. The natives gather the fruit of this spiny plant in large quantities, and it forms a food of material importance to the several tribes living within its habitat. In gathering it they use rude tongs made from a split stick. After a basket is filled, the fruit is spread on the ground and bushed about with a small, stiff besom until the spines are worn off, or the spines are burned of in an open fire.
11. Carlos Rios - Papago chief
12. Facade - San Xavier del Bac Mission
13. Luzi - Papago
14. Qahatika water girl
15. Qahatika girl
16. Mohave chief
17. Mohave water carrier
18. Judith - Mohave
19. Quniaika - Mohave
20. Mosa - Mohave
21. Yuma
22. Hwalya - Yuma
23. Havachachi - Maricopa
24. Maricopa girl
25. Mat Stams - Maricopa
26. Hipah with arrow-brush - Maricopa
27. By the canal - Maricopa
28. Saguaro fruit-gatherers - Maricopa
29. Pakit - Maricopa
30. Captain Charley - Maricopa
31. Home of the Havasupai The Havasupai dwelling is dome-shaped framework of poles, sometimes covered with brush and reeds only, in other cases banked well toward the top with earth. The cañon walls shown in the background are of red sandstone, and rise perpendicularly four hundred feet. Back of these walls extend vast stretches of rough, broken country, intersected by many ravines and capped by sharp pinnacles. This picture was taken in early spring, when the peach orchards of the Havasupai were in full blossom.
32. Pachilawa - Walapai chief
33. Tonovige - Havasupai
34. Getting water - Havasupai
Pima Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Basketry Bowl
2. Saguaro harvest - Pima
3. Pima baskets The baskets made by the Pima, Papago, and Qahatika, as well as by their Maricopa neighbors, are practically identical in form and design, but the Maricopa basketry is of somewhat superior workmanship. The four-armed cross, a form of the swastika, appears as the central feature in the decoration of a majority of the Piman and Maricopa baskets of to-day, and while the true signification here is not known with certainty, it is not impossible that it was designed originally to represent the winds of the four cardinal directions. Less than a generation ago the swastika was employed by the Pima to decorate their shields, and as a brand for their horses.
4. Kaviu - Pima
5. Burden-bearer - Pima
6. Pima woman
7. Pima ki The old-time round dwelling of the Pima tribes. In construction it was much the same as the earth lodge of the tribes of the northern plains, the chief difference lying in the fact that its top is practically flat and it is not provided with an opening for the escape of the smoke, as well as in the lack of an extended or built-out entrance way. The ki was usually about 15 feet in diameter. As the winter climate of southern Arizona is very mild, only a small fire was needed to keep the ki warm in even the coldest weather, the smoke from which became absorbed in part by the earthen roof, or escaped through the doorway.
8. Pima matron
9. Chijako - Pima
10. Papago girl A particularly fine-looking Papago girl of as nearly pure blood as can be found in the region. The northern Piman tribes have been in direct contact with Spanish people for more than two centuries. Much of the early foreign blood, however, has become so blended that its physical influence is no longer apparent. Indeed there are many instances in which the Indians insist that their blood is entirely aboriginal, whereas in fact an infusion of alien blood is traceable several generations back.
11. Gathering hanamh - Papago Hanamh is the Piman name for the cholla cactus and its fruit. The natives gather the fruit of this spiny plant in large quantities, and it forms a food of material importance to the several tribes living within its habitat. In gathering it they use rude tongs made from a split stick. After a basket is filled, the fruit is spread on the ground and bushed about with a small, stiff besom until the spines are worn off, or the spines are burned of in an open fire.
12. Saguaro fruit-gatherers - Maricopa
13. Pima-land
14. Gathering cactus fruit - Pima
15. A Pima home
16. Antonio Azul - Pima
17. Pima burial grounds
18. Pima granaries
19. Ceremonial ki - Pima
20. Gathering arrow-brush - Pima
21. Joseph Head - Pima
22. Isevik - Pima
"Portrait" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Geronimo - Apache This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at the time seventy-six years of age, thus making the year of his birth 1829. The picture was taken at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the day before the inauguration of President Roosevelt, Geronimo being one of the warriors who took part in the inaugural parade at Washington. He appreciated the honor of being one of those chosen for this occasion, and the catching of his features while the old warrior was in a retrospective mood was most fortunate.
2. Alchise - Apache
3. Kaviu - Pima
4. Captain Charley - Maricopa
5. Tonovige - Havasupai
6. Jack Red Cloud
7. Little Hawk
8. Yellow Kidney - Piegan
9. Cheyenne type
10. Flathead type
11. Luqaiot - Kittitas The original of this portrait is a son Owhi (Ohai), who as chief of the Salishan band inhabiting Kittitas valley, Washington, at first appeared to favor the Stevens treaty of 1855, but a few months later was drawn into the Indian uprising by the act of another son, Qahlchun, in killing some prospectors. At the termination of hostilities Luqaiot made his permanent home among the Spokan, taking for his wife the daughter of a Spokan chief and widow of his executed brother Qahlchun. Luqaiot's recollections of the events of these times will be found scattered through the account of the Yakima war in Volume VII.
12. Typical Nez Perce
13. Lawyer - Nez Perce
14. Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
15. Datsolali, Washo basket-maker The coiled baskets produced by this woman have not been equalled by any Indian now living. Compare her work, shown in Plate 541, with the baskets of another woman as illustrated in Plate 542. The latter, seen alone, would be very excellent examples of Indian basketry, but their comparative coarseness is easily seen even in photographic reproduction. About ninety years old, Datsolali appears to be in the early sixties. She has the pride of a master in his craft, and a goodly endowment of artistic temperament. Persuading her to sit for a portrait is a task not to be lightly undertaken. Tatsolali (said to mean "big hips") is a nickname. Her proper name is Tabuta.
16. Ambrosio Martinez - San Juan
17. Zuni governor
18. Old Eagle - Oto
19. Esipermi - Comanche There were no more vigorous people among the Indians of the Plains than the Comanche, a Shoshonean tribe, related to the Shoshone and Bannock of Idaho, from which region they entered the northern plains and drifted ever southward, following the bison in their wanderings. They were noted warriors and raiders, being the enemies of many tribes and extending their depredations far into Mexico. One need look no farther than the accompanying portraits to discern the warrior character of those old braves.
20. Uyowutcha - Nunivak
21. Ugiyaku - Nunivak
22. Curtis and His Collaborators
23. Focus on the Portraits: Video Essay
24. AfterImages
25. Geronimo
26. The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs
27. The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Bibliography
28. The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs
29. The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Endnotes
30. Warm tones and Wigs
31. Chief Josef –Nez Perce
32. Jackson and Curtis at the end
33. Upshaw – Apsaroke
34. Princess Angeline
35. Visualizing the "Vanishing Race": the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis Bibliography
36. Oldest man of Nootka
37. Hesquiat woman
38. A woman of Hesquiat
39. A Zuni Woman
40. Pima matron
41. Judith - Mohave
42. Tonovige - Havasupai
43. Ogalala woman
44. Sioux girl
45. Two Bear Woman - Piegan
46. Dusty dress - Kalispel
47. Nespilim woman
48. Piopio-maksmaks - Wallawalla Piopio-maksmaks, quoted in Volume VIII, pages 20-21, is the son of the Piopio-maksmaks who as principal chief of the Wallawalla negotiated a treaty with Governor Isaac I. Stevens in the Wallawalla valley in 1855. The father was killed while a captive of the Oregon volunteers, and the son thereafter lived permanently among the Nez Perces, having married a woman of that tribe. Piopio-maksmaks possesses as unusually strong face, and his remarkably piercing eye betokens a man possessing the courage characteristic of his family and tribe.
49. Suquamish woman
50. Princess Angeline
51. Lummi woman
52. Koskimo woman
53. Hesquiat woman
54. Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
55. Nootka woman
56. Haiyahl - Nootka
57. Hopi woman
58. Klamath woman
59. Old Klamath woman
60. Hupa woman
61. Coast Pomo woman
62. Aged Pomo woman
63. Wappo woman
64. Yaundanchi Yokuts woman
65. Cupeño woman The Cupeño are a small Shoshonean group of mountaineers formerly residing at the head of San Luis Rey river in north-central San Diego county. Popularly known as Aguas Calientes and as Warner's Ranch Indians, they gained considerable prominence at the beginning of the century when the Supreme Court ruled adversely upon their title to the land of their nativity. In 1903 they were settled at Pala reservation on lands adjoining those of the Luiseños, and their former habitat is now beautiful Warner's ranch. Cupeño is a Spanish derivative of Kupa, the name of their former village. The surviving population of Wolak, the other Cupeño settlement, is now on Los Coyotes reservati
66. Serrano woman of Tejon The Serranos (Spanish, "mountaineers"), a Shoshonean branch comprising numerous local groups, occupied San Bernardino valley, San Bernardino mountains north of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, a portion of Mojave desert north of that range and east of Mojave river, and Tehachapi mountains. This last group, who lived principally on El Paso and Tejon creeks, were the Kitanemuk. In 1853 most of the resident Indians, including not only various Shoshoneans but many Yokuts, were taken to Tule river reservation. Tejon rancheria remains, however, a settlement of various Shoshoneans, but predominantly Kitanemuk
67. Desert Cahuilla woman
68. Diegueño woman of Santa Ysabel
69. Diegueño woman of Campo
70. Datsolali, Washo basket-maker The coiled baskets produced by this woman have not been equalled by any Indian now living. Compare her work, shown in Plate 541, with the baskets of another woman as illustrated in Plate 542. The latter, seen alone, would be very excellent examples of Indian basketry, but their comparative coarseness is easily seen even in photographic reproduction. About ninety years old, Datsolali appears to be in the early sixties. She has the pride of a master in his craft, and a goodly endowment of artistic temperament. Persuading her to sit for a portrait is a task not to be lightly undertaken. Tatsolali (said to mean "big hips") is a nickname. Her proper name is Tabuta.
71. Washo woman
72. Walvia
73. Taos woman
74. Acoma woman
75. Zuni woman
76. A Cree woman
77. Dog woman - Cheyenne
78. Woista - Cheyenne woman
79. Ugiyaku - Nunivak
80. Woman and child - Nunivak
81. An Apache-Mohave woman
82. Good Day Woman - Ogalala
83. Flathead woman - Apsaroke
84. Hidatsa woman
85. Scattered Corn Woman - Mandan
86. Arikara woman
87. Piegan woman
88. Cheyenne woman
89. Cheyenne young woman
90. Spokan woman
91. Cayuse woman
92. Wishham young woman
93. Cowichan woman
94. Chimakum woman
95. A Clayoquot woman
96. A Makah woman
97. A woman of Kiusta - Haida
98. A woman of Massett - Haida
99. A Hopi woman
100. Hupa woman
101. Karok woman
102. Achomawi woman
103. Klamath woman
104. A Kato woman
105. A Wailaki woman
106. Old woman in mourning - Yuki
107. A Yuki woman
108. A southern Miwok woman
109. A Maidu woman
110. A Chukchansi woman