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"Primitive" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Vanishing race - Navaho
2. Scout - Apache
3. Jicarilla women
4. Son of the desert - Navaho
5. Ogalala woman
6. Kutenai camp
7. Rush gatherer - Kutenai
8. Primitive Quinault
9. Kwakiutl house-frame The two long beams in the middle are twin ridge-timbers, which are supported in the rear, as in the front, by a transverse beam resting on two uprights. At the extreme right and left are the eaves-timbers. The longitudinal and circular flutes of the columns are laboriously produced by means of a small hand-adze of primitive form. This frame is at the village Memkumlis. Another view is given in the illustration facing page 36. Kwakiutl houses are discussed on page 6.
10. Rounding into port - Qagyhl The primitive Kwakiutl sail for canvas was a sheet of cedar-bark matting, and on catamarans a large, square section of thin boards was propped up against the wind. Canvas is now used. The painting on the canoe at the left represents "sisiutl", the mythical double-headed serpent. The carved figure-heads of the middle canoe and the one on the right are respectively an eagle and a bear. The bear canoe is further embellished with highly conventionalized paintings of the head, flipper and tail of a whale.
11. On the shores at Nootka
12. Boarding the canoe
13. Oldest man of Nootka
14. Bark gatherer
15. Primitive style of hairdressing
16. A Klamath
17. Woman's primitive dress - Tolowa
18. Hupa woman in primitive costume
19. Diegueño home
20. Primitive artist - Paviotso
21. Primitive Apache home
22. Primitive Mohave
23. Primitive transportation - Mohave
24. Primitive dress - Quinault
25. A primitive camp
26. Primitive Chemehuevi dwelling
"Woman" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Apache reaper
2. Pima woman
3. Mohave water carrier
4. Judith - Mohave
5. Tonovige - Havasupai
6. Ogalala woman
7. Sioux girl
8. Two Bear Woman - Piegan
9. Dusty dress - Kalispel
10. Nespilim woman
11. 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.
12. Wishham woman
13. Columbia near Wind River
14. On the beach - Chinook
15. Chief's daughter - Skokomish
16. Suquamish woman
17. Princess Angeline
18. Lummi woman
19. Painting a hat - Nakoaktok The painter is clad in a short, seamless, cedar-bark cape, which is worn for protection from rain. That she is a woman of wealth and rank is shown by the abalone-shell nose-ornament and the gold bracelets, no less than by her possession of a "chief's hat". These waterproof hats, of a form borrowed from the Haida are made of closely woven shreds of fibrous spruce-roots, and are ornamented with one of the owner's crests - a highly conventionalized painting of some animal or mythological being.
20. Koskimo woman
21. Hesquiat woman
22. Into the shadow - Clayoquot
23. Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
24. Bark gatherer
25. Nootka woman
26. Haiyahl - Nootka
27. Hopi woman
28. Potter mixing clay
29. Klamath woman
30. Karok baskets The basketry of the Karok does not differ from that of the Hupa and the Yurok. The process is always twining, and the usual materials are hazel rod for the warp, roots of the digger or the yellow pine for the weft, and Xerophyllum grass for white overlay, bark of the maidenhair fern for black, and fibres from the stem of Woodwardia fern, dyed in alder-bark juice in the mouth of the workwoman, for red. Represented in the plate are the receptacle for the storage of seeds and nuts, the burden-basket, the winnowing tray, various sizes of mush-baskets and food containers, and the cradle-basket.
31. Old Klamath woman
32. Hupa woman
33. Woman's primitive dress - Tolowa
34. Achomawi basket-maker The Achomawi, or Pit River Indians, produce baskets only by the process known as twining, which is true weaving, never by coiling, which is actually a sewing process. In general their baskets have bottoms and sides slightly rounded, openings broad, and depth rather shallow. The usual materials are willow rods for the warp, or upright elements, and pie-root strands for the weft, or horizontal elements. The structure in the background is a summer hut, a rudely conical or hemispherical tipi covered with tule mats. The workwoman is wearing a rabbit-skin robe.
35. Hupa woman in primitive costume
36. Coast Pomo woman
37. Aged Pomo woman
38. Wappo woman
39. Yaundanchi Yokuts woman
40. 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
41. 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
42. Desert Cahuilla woman
43. Diegueño woman of Santa Ysabel
44. Diegueño woman of Campo
45. 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.
46. Washo woman
47. Walvia
48. Taos woman
49. Aiyowitsa - Cochiti
50. Acoma woman
51. Zuni woman
52. Maricopa woman mealing
53. An Apache-Mohave woman
54. Good Day Woman - Ogalala
55. Apsaroke woman
56. A young horsewoman
57. Flathead woman - Apsaroke
58. Hidatsa woman
59. Scattered Corn Woman - Mandan
60. Arikara woman
61. Piegan woman
62. Cheyenne woman
63. Cheyenne young woman
64. Flathead young woman
65. Spokan woman
66. Kutenai woman
67. Typical Spokan woman
68. Cayuse woman
69. Wishham young woman
70. Cowichan woman
71. Chimakum woman
72. A woman of Hesquiat
73. A shaman or medicine woman
74. Costume of a woman shaman - Clayoquot
75. Woman shaman looking for clairvoyant visions - Clayoquot
76. Clayoquot woman in cedar-bark hat
77. A Clayoquot woman
78. A Makah woman
79. A woman of Nootka
80. A Hopi woman
81. Hupa woman
82. Hupa woman's dress
83. Karok woman
84. Achomawi woman
85. Klamath woman
86. A Kato woman
87. A Wailaki woman
88. Old woman in mourning - Yuki
89. A Yuki woman
90. Eastern Pomo woman
91. A southern Miwok woman
92. A Maidu woman
93. A Chukchansi woman
94. A Chukchansi woman - Profile
95. A Yaudanchi Yokuts woman
96. A Chukchansi Yokuts woman - A
97. A Chukchansi Yokuts woman - B
98. A Cupeño woman
99. A desert Cahuilla woman
100. A Santa Ysabel woman -
101. A southern Digueño woman
102. Paviotso woman of Pyramid Lake
103. A woman of Palm Springs - Cahuilla
104. A Capitan Grande woman -
105. A young woman of Campo -
106. A Paviotso woman of Walker Lake
107. A Washo woman.
108. An Isleta woman
109. A Cochiti woman
110. Tablita woman dancer - San Ildefonso
111. A Chipewyan woman
112. A Piegan woman
113. An old woman - Blood
114. A Blackfoot woman
115. Isqe-sis ("Woman Small") and chile - Cree
116. Cree woman with fur robe
117. A Sarsi woman
118. Missi-tsatsa -- "Owl Old-woman"
119. Woman's costume and baby swing - Assiniboin
120. Woman's costume - Cheyenne
121. Selawik woman
Ogalala Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Ogalala war-party Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere sticks adorned with eagle-feathers or scalps - the so-called coup-sticks - desiring to win honor by striking a harmless blow therewith as well as to inflict injury with arrow and bullet.
2. Jack Red Cloud
3. Slow Bull - Ogalala
4. Hukalowapi ceremony
5. Prayer to the Mystery
6. Fast Elk
7. Ogalala woman
8. In the land of the Sioux
9. Ogalala girls
10. Planning a raid
11. Red Cloud - Ogalala
12. Crazy Thunder - Ogalala
13. American Horse - Ogalala
14. Calico - Ogalala
15. Shield - Ogalala
16. Stands First - Ogalala
17. Good Lance - Ogalala
18. Iron Plume - Ogalala
19. Struck By Crow - Ogalala
20. Ogalala child
21. Big Road's twin daughters - Ogalala
22. No Flesh - Ogalala
23. Blue Horse - Ogalala
24. Returned Scout - Ogalala
25. Good Day Woman - Ogalala
26. He Crow - Ogalala
27. Kills in Timber - Ogalala
28. Standing Bear - Ogalala
29. Elk Boy - Ogalala
30. His Fights - Ogalala
31. Eagle Elk - Ogalala
32. Fast Thunder - Ogalala
33. Red Hawk - Ogalala
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Three Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Medicine-man
2. Ogalala war-party Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere sticks adorned with eagle-feathers or scalps - the so-called coup-sticks - desiring to win honor by striking a harmless blow therewith as well as to inflict injury with arrow and bullet.
3. Two Strike
4. Sioux chiefs
5. Oasis in the Bad Lands
6. Jack Red Cloud
7. Hollow Horn Bear
8. Sun dancer "As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to the yellow glaring sun, and their eyes are fixed on its lower rim. The dancer concentrates his mind, his very self, upon the one thing that he desires, whether it be the acquirement of powerful medicine or only success in the next conflict with the enemy." - Volume III, pages 95-96.
9. Slow Bull - Ogalala
10. Brule war-party
11. Gray day in the Bad Lands
12. High Hawk The subject is shown in all the finery of a warrior dressed for a gala occasion - scalp-shirt, leggings, moccasins, and pipe-bag, all embroidered with porcupine-quills; eagle-feather war bonnet, and stone-headed war-club from the handle of which dangles a scalp. High Hawk is prominent among the Brules mainly because he is now their leading historical authority, being much in demand to determine the dates of events important to his fellow tribesmen. His calendar, or "winter-count," is explained, and in part reproduced, in Volume III, pages 159-182.
13. Prairie chief
14. Little Hawk
15. Hukalowapi ceremony
16. Prayer to the Mystery
17. Fast Elk
18. Sioux camp
19. Ogalala woman
20. In the land of the Sioux
21. Ogalala girls
22. Sioux girl
23. Planning a raid
24. Morning attack
25. Heavy load - Sioux
26. Black Eagle - Assiniboin
27. Mosquito Hawk - Assiniboin
28. Red Cloud - Ogalala
29. Crazy Thunder - Ogalala
30. Wood gatherer - Sioux
31. Winter camp - Sioux
32. Assiniboin camp
33. American Horse - Ogalala
34. Invocation - Sioux Scattered throughout the Indian country are found spots that are virtually shrines. These are often boulders or other rocks which through some chance have been invested with mythic significance, and to them priest and war-leaders repair to invoke the aid of the supernatural powers. The half-buried bowlder on which the suppliant stands is accredited with the power of revealing to the warrior the foreordained result of his projected raid. Its surface bears what the Indians call the imprint of human feet, and it is owing to this peculiarity that it became a shrine. About it the soil is almost completely worn away by the generations of suppliants who have journeyed hither for divine revelation
35. Mountain-sheep hunter - Sioux
36. In the Bad Lands
"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
28. The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Bibliography
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