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Luqaiot - Kittitas

29482 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.

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Salishan Erik Loyer
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1. Nespilim man
2. 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.
Spokan Erik Loyer
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1. Spokan man
2. On Spokane River Spokane river, from a short distance below its head in Coeur d?Alene lake to its confluence with the Columbia, flows through the midst of what was the territory of the Spokan Indians. The character of the country through which the stream passes for some miles above its mouth is well shown in the picture. Northward from the stream lie the mountains among which the three Spokan tribes hunted deer and gathered their supplies of roots.
3. Spokan camp
4. 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.
5. On the move - Spokan
6. A hill camp - Spokan
7. Spokan woman
8. Author's camp among the Spokan
9. Returning to camp - Spokan
10. Spokan matron
11. Pukimanstula - Spokan
12. Typical Spokan woman
13. In the mountains - Spokan
Salish Erik Loyer
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1. Coiled basketry bowl Coiled basket with diagonal zig-zag patterns (stepped-patterned?) in brown and black/dark brown. Decorative rim with nine bunches of cellulose basketry (each approx. 3 cm) attached to top. Typed note inside vessel says: "19. Basketry Vessel. Tribe: Interior Salish or Klickitat. British Columbia and Washington State. Design: imbricated zig zag stepped band pattern from top to bottom in light black and red, with tan and light base. Size: 3 7/8" h., x 9 1/4" dia. Circa: 1900. Condition: v. poor rim condition."
2. Storage basket Coiled basket with remnants of green and red pigment. Difficult to discern design; it is most apparent around the lip and the base. On the bottom exterior of the basket, there are concentric circles colored red. Rim has been broken in several places but is stabilized by early repair. Typed note inside basket says: "30. Basketry Storage Vessel. Tribe: Interior Salish or Klickitat, B.C. & WA. Design: utility vessel w/no apparent design pattern; splints of cedar or bundles of cedar roots and/or grasses make up the coil materials surface imbrication adds rigidity to the basket. Size: 9 1/4" h., 16" x 12" flattened oval. Condition: irreparably poor." A second handwritten note with basket says "No. West Coast, Thompson River?"
3. Big Knife - Flathead
4. Nespilim man
5. 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
6. 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.
7. Primitive Quinault
"Portrait" Erik Loyer
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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
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seven Erik Loyer
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1. Inashah - Yakima Many of the elderly and middle-aged Yakima, especially those of what was formerly the ruling class, feel the same dislike and suspicion of the white man that moved their fathers, in the uprising of 1855, to attempt to expel the newcomers from their territory. The brooding expression of dissatisfaction on the face of this man seemingly represents inherent tribal antipathy to the white race, engendered by their aggression and greed.
2. Wife of Mnainak - Yakima
3. Wishnai - Yakima
4. Camp of the Yakima
5. Mountain camp - Yakima
6. Klickitat type
7. Klickitat profile
8. Flathead type
9. Flathead profile
10. Flathead chief Through the medium of their annual incursions into the buffalo plains east of the Rocky mountains, the Flatheads adopted much of the plains culture. Not only their domicile (the tipi), their garments, weapons, and articles of adornment, came from this source, but many of their dances were in imitation of similar ceremonies practised by the prairie tribes. Prominent features of the accoutrement of this Flathead chief are his war-club of the plains type, and an eagle-bone whistle, such as was used in the Sun Dance. The Flatheads however never acquired the sun rite
11. Big Knife - Flathead
12. Flathead camp
13. Flathead camp on Jocko River
14. Stormy day - Flathead
15. Flathead dance
16. Flathead childhood
17. By the river - Flathead
18. Kalispel type
19. Dusty dress - Kalispel
20. Village of the Kalispel
21. Kalispel scene
22. Spokan man
23. On Spokane River Spokane river, from a short distance below its head in Coeur d?Alene lake to its confluence with the Columbia, flows through the midst of what was the territory of the Spokan Indians. The character of the country through which the stream passes for some miles above its mouth is well shown in the picture. Northward from the stream lie the mountains among which the three Spokan tribes hunted deer and gathered their supplies of roots.
24. Spokan camp
25. Nespilim man
26. Nespilim woman
27. 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
28. 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.
29. Country of the Kutenai The Kutenai occupied portions of southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana. In this region of blue, mountain-girt lakes and majestic rivers they very naturally made use of canoes. The commoner form was the pine-bark craft still to be observed among the Kalispel (see plates 239, 240), but occasionally they made canoes of the form here illustrated, by stretching fresh elk-hides over a framework of fir strips or tough saplings. The one seen in the picture is a canvas-covered specimen found on the shore of Flathead lake in 1909.
30. Kutenai duck hunter
31. Embarking - Kutenai
32. On the shore of the lake - Kutenai
33. Crossing the lake - Kutenai
34. Kutenai girls
35. Kutenai camp
36. Rush gatherer - Kutenai