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Country of the Kutenai

29482 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.

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Kutenai Erik Loyer
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1. 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.
2. Kutenai duck hunter
3. Embarking - Kutenai
4. On the shore of the lake - Kutenai
5. Crossing the lake - Kutenai
6. Kutenai girls
7. Kutenai camp
8. Rush gatherer - Kutenai
9. Camp in the forest - Kutenai
10. On Flathead Lake - Kutenai
11. Kutenai woman
12. Not Grizzly-bear - Kutenai
13. Dressing skins - Kutenai
14. Kutenai type
15. Kutenai profile
16. Kutenai maiden
17. Komitsa - Kutenai
18. Kutenai female type
19. A young Kutenai
20. A Kutenai man
21. Kutenai girls at the lake-shore
22. Kutenai canoe
Kalispel Erik Loyer
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1. Kalispel type
2. Dusty dress - Kalispel
3. Village of the Kalispel
4. Kalispel scene
5. 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.
6. Kalispel village
7. Touch Her Dress - Kalispel
8. Kalispel canoes
9. Kalispel camp
10. Masselow, Kalispel chief
11. The peace-officer - Kalispel
12. Chief of the land - Kalispel
13. The chief's wife - Kalispel
14. Crossing the Pend d'Oreille - Kalispel
15. Kalispel maiden
16. Young Kalispel girl
17. Kalispel youth
18. Shirt - Kalispel
19. Home of the Kalispel
20. On the Pend d'Oreille - Kalispel
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