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Hwalya - Yuma

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Yuma Erik Loyer
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"Girl" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Sigesh - Apache
2. Apache Nalin
3. Qahatika water girl
4. Qahatika girl
5. Mosa - Mohave
6. Hwalya - Yuma
7. Maricopa girl
8. Ogalala girls
9. Sioux girl
10. Arikara girl
11. Cheyenne girl
12. Mountain camp - Yakima
13. Nespilim girl In the early years of the nineteenth century various explorers noted that the bands dwelling along the upper course of the Columbia, among which the Nespilim were included, wore practically no clothing. Excepting as the cold made some protection necessary. The hair of the women was arranged in two knots at the sides of the face ? a method of hairdressing still in vogue among the Salish on Fraser river. Prior to the middle of the century the use of deerskin garments had become common, and gradually other customs such as the style of hairdressing here illustrated, were borrowed from the tribes east of the Rocky mountains
14. Kutenai girls
15. Fisherman - Wishham
16. Wishham girl The subject is clothed in a heavily beaded deerskin dress of the plains type. The throat is encircled by strands of shell beads of native manufacture, heirlooms which were obtained by the original Wishham possessor from the Pacific slope. Pendant on the breast are strands of larger beads of the same kind, as well as of various kinds brought into the country by the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. An indispensable ornament of the well-born person was the dentalium-shell thrust through a perforation in the nasal septum; occasionally, as in this case, two such shells were connected by means of a bit of wood pushed into the hollow bases. Tied to the hair at each side of the face (see the following plate) is another dentalium-shell ornament, which is in reality an ear pendant transferred from the lobe of the ear (where its weight would be inconvenient) to the hair. The head-dress consists of shells, shell beads, commercial beads, and Chinese coins. The coins made their appearance in the Columbia River region at a comparatively early date. This form of head-dress was worn on special occasions by girls between the age of puberty and their marriage.
17. Wishham girl, profile
18. Wishham maid
19. Suquamish girl
20. Cowichan girl
21. Clayoquot girl
22. Hesquiat maiden
23. Loitering at the spring
24. Tewa girl
25. Watching the dancers
26. Hopi girl
27. East mesa girls
28. Tewa girls
29. Pomo girl Clam-shell beads of the kind here shown are still made by some of the old men. Fragments of shell are pierced and strung on a stem of the scouring-rush (Equisetum), which is then drawn backward and forward on a flat surface of sandstone until the fragments have become nearly circular. The feathered ornament is an ear-pendant, which in this case, because of its length and weight, is attached to a strand of hair. The large, dark-colored bead on one strand of the necklace is a cylinder of magnesite, a highly valued object
30. Coast Pomo girl
31. Taos water girls
32. Ti'mu - Cochiti
33. Sia buffalo dancer The Buffalo dance of the Keres is almost exactly the same as that of the Tewa. The performers are two young men with head-dresses of buffalo-hair and horns, and a girl wearing the usual female costume and a pair of small horns. The head of the hunters' society plays the part of guard. The dance is very strenuous, and the simulated actions of t he buffalo are quite realistic and readily comprehended by the spectator.
34. Acoma water girls
35. Povi-Tamu
36. Girl and jar - San Ildefonso
37. Tesuque buffalo dancers The Buffalo dance is performed, though the original object of exerting prenatural influence on the abundance and accessibility of the buffalo no longer prevails. The two male dancers are accompanied by the Buffalo Girl, who is fully clothed in native costume and has a pair of small horns on the head. These three give a very striking and dramatic performance under the watchful eye of the head of the hunters' society.
38. Zuni girls at the river
39. Zuni girl
40. Apache girl
41. Yuma girl
42. Sholya - Mohave girl
43. Yaqui girl
44. Maricopa water girl
45. Mandan girl
46. Piegan girls
47. Arapaho water girl
48. Young Kalispel girl
49. Kutenai girls at the lake-shore
50. Nez Perce girl
51. Umatilla girl
52. Cayuse girl
53. Wishham girls
54. Quinault girl
55. Quilliute girl
56. Tsawatenok girl
57. Hesquiat girl in cedar-bark costume
58. Hano and Walpi girls wearing atoo
59. An East Mesa girl.
60. Sherwood Valley girl - Pomo
61. A Pomo girl
62. An Isleta girl
63. A Taos girl
64. Boy and girl columns at Corn Mountain -
65. A Zuñi girl
66. A Nambe girl
67. A Cree girl
68. A Comanche girl
69. Girl's costume, Nunivak
70. Diomede girl
71. Selawik girl.
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