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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
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Rush gatherer - Kutenai
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Rushes gathered in swamps and in the shallows of the lakes were dried and strung together into mats, which primitively were used for lodge-covers, mattresses, canoe cushions, and for a variety of domestic purposes.
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"Primitive"
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Vanishing race - Navaho
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The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn in their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so much of the thought that inspired the entire work, the author has chosen it as the first of the series.
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Scout - Apache
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The primitive Apache in his mountain home.
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Jicarilla women
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Women watching the races on their annual ceremonial or feast day. It will be observed that they are all dressed uniformly in garments cut after the primitive mode.
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Son of the desert - Navaho
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In the early morning this boy, as if springing from the earth itself, came to the author's desert camp. Indeed, he seemed a part of the very desert. His eyes bespeak all of the curiosity, all of the wonder of his primitive mind striving to grasp the meaning of the strange things about him.
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Ogalala woman
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A face so strong that it is almost masculine, showing strikingly how slight may be the difference between the male and female physiognomy in some primitive people.
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Kutenai camp
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The scene is a thinly wooded, sandy peninsula at the southern end of Flathead lake. Here the author's camp was pitched in 1909 during some weeks of investigation into the primitive life of the Kutenai.
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Rush gatherer - Kutenai
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Rushes gathered in swamps and in the shallows of the lakes were dried and strung together into mats, which primitively were used for lodge-covers, mattresses, canoe cushions, and for a variety of domestic purposes.
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Primitive Quinault
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Among the Coast Salish the aboriginal dress of women was a knee-length kilt of thick, cedar-bark fringe. No other garment was worn except when cold or rain made goat-hair or vegetal-fibre blankets or capes desireable.
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Kwakiutl house-frame
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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.
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Rounding into port - Qagyhl
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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.
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On the shores at Nootka
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Two women wearing the primitive bark blanket and nose-ornament, and with clam-baskets on their backs, rest on the beach while waiting for the tide to fall and uncover the clam-beds.
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Boarding the canoe
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A Hesquiat berry-picker in primitive garb on the bold shores of Clayoquot sound. The barefoot natives make their way without difficulty over barnacle-covered rocks such as these. It will be noted that the canoe has been fitted with rowlocks.
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Oldest man of Nootka
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This individual is the most primitive relic in the modernized village of Nootka. Stark naked, he may be seen hobbling about the beach or squatting in the sun, living in thought in the golden age when the social and ceremonial customs of his people were what they had always been.
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Bark gatherer
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These people still use large quantities of yellow-cedar bark in the manufacture of mats, and formerly this material furnished them their clothing also. The Hesquiat woman in the picture has a bulky pack of bark on her back, and in her hand is a steel-bladed adz of the primitive type.
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Primitive style of hairdressing
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The arrangement imitates the squash-blossom and indicates virginity. Within the last decade it has become rare, except on ceremonial occasions.
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A Klamath
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The entire costume here depicted is alien to the primitive Klamath. The feather head-dress and fringed shirt and leggings of deerskin were adopted by this tribe within the historical period, along with other phases of the Plains culture, which extended its influence to the Klamath country by way of Columbia river and the plains of central Oregon.
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Woman's primitive dress - Tolowa
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This is the gala costume of Coast Athapascan women. The ordinary dress was a deerskin kilt with the opening at the front protected by a fringed apron of deerskin or of bark. Ordinarily the feet and the upper part of the body were bare.
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Hupa woman in primitive costume
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This is an excellent example of the gala costume of Hupa women. The deerskin skirt is worn about the hips and meets in front, where the opening is covered by a similar garment. Both are fringed and heavily beaded, and the strands of the apron are ornamented with the shells of pine-nuts.
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Diegueño home
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The Diegueños, a Yuman division formerly inhabiting practically the whole of San Diego county, are now found on about a dozen small reservations. Although they were not formerly agriculturists like the Colorado River Yumans, many of them take excellent care of their little ranches. Such houses as the one shown here are not of the primitive type, though they are constructed of the same materials.
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Primitive artist - Paviotso
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A side of the glaciated bowlder near the southwestern shore of Walker lake is covered with phallic symbols in faded red.
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Primitive Apache home
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Primitive Mohave
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Primitive transportation - Mohave
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Primitive dress - Quinault
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A primitive camp
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Primitive Chemehuevi dwelling
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Kutenai
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Country of the Kutenai
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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 duck hunter
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In the gray dawn of a foggy morning the hunter crouches in his canoe among the rushes, waiting for the water-fowl to come within range.
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Embarking - Kutenai
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The picture was made near the southern end of Flathead lake, in northwestern Montana.
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On the shore of the lake - Kutenai
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The distant foothills of the Rocky mountains occupy the background.
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Crossing the lake - Kutenai
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Kutenai girls
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Kutenai camp
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The scene is a thinly wooded, sandy peninsula at the southern end of Flathead lake. Here the author's camp was pitched in 1909 during some weeks of investigation into the primitive life of the Kutenai.
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Rush gatherer - Kutenai
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Rushes gathered in swamps and in the shallows of the lakes were dried and strung together into mats, which primitively were used for lodge-covers, mattresses, canoe cushions, and for a variety of domestic purposes.
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Camp in the forest - Kutenai
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On Flathead Lake - Kutenai
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Kutenai woman
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Not Grizzly-bear - Kutenai
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Dressing skins - Kutenai
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Kutenai type
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Kutenai profile
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Kutenai maiden
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Komitsa - Kutenai
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Kutenai female type
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A young Kutenai
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A Kutenai man
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Kutenai girls at the lake-shore
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Kutenai canoe
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seven
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Media Gallery
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Inashah - Yakima
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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.
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Wife of Mnainak - Yakima
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Mnainak, son of the former chief of the Columbia River village Skin at the north side of Celilo falls, is probably the man of greatest influence among the remnant of the cognate bands that constitute the Yakima.
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Wishnai - Yakima
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Camp of the Yakima
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Mountain camp - Yakima
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The reservation of the Yakima rises from the level of the valley of the Yakima river to the lower range of mountains between that stream and the Columbia. In the glades of the mountains small parties pitch their tipis in the spring-time, and the women and girls gather edible roots, notably bitterroot.
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Klickitat type
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Klickitat profile
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Flathead type
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Probably the Indian does not live in whose veins does not flow the blood of more than one tribe. The Flatheads are unusually composite, and the original of the portrait here presented, while as good a type as can be found, no doubt is of a very different mould from that of a Flathead of three or four generations ago.
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Flathead profile
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Flathead chief
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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
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Big Knife - Flathead
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Big Knife's ancestry includes an Iroquois (perhaps a halfbreed), one of a number who came into the Northwest as employes of the Hudson's Bay Company. The head-dress of buffalo horns and scalp is not characteristic of the Salish tribes, but of the plains Indians.
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Flathead camp
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Flathead camp on Jocko River
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The scene depicts a small camp among the pines on the reservation of the Flatheads in western Montana, the majestic Rocky mountains rising abruptly in the background.
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Stormy day - Flathead
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The day was a succession of sudden squalls descending from the near-by mountains. Just a moment before sunset, when all hope of accomplishing anything with a camera was abandoned, the sun broke through the clouds for an instant, and this striking picture was obtained.
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Flathead dance
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Eliminating the environment, one would suppose that a party of plains Indians were performing. The costumes, the step, the gesture, the character of songs, all evidence of the Flathead war-dance.
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Flathead childhood
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By the river - Flathead
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Kalispel type
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Dusty dress - Kalispel
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The Kalispel young woman, Skohlpba, is garbed in a dress ornamented with shells that imitate elk-tusks. The braids of hair are wound with strips of otter fur, and a weasel-skin dangles from each. The bands of white on the hair are effected with white clay.
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Village of the Kalispel
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The Kalispel, who now number about a hundred, are scattered along the eastern side of the Pend d'Oreille river in eastern Washington. In the summer they assemble in their picturesque village, consisting of a few wooden houses and a dozen or more canvas-covered tipis, at the edge of a camas meadow opposite the town of Cusick.
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Kalispel scene
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From time out of mind the Kalispel have been boatmen, and they are one of the few inland tribes that still possess and use craft of native manufacture. Their canoes are made of pine-bark on a framework of cedar strips, the seams and the imperfections of the bark being caulked with spruce gum.
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Spokan man
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On Spokane River
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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.
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Spokan camp
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The scene is the narrow bench some hundreds of feet above the level of Spokane river, on its northern bank and a few miles above its confluence with the Columbia.
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Nespilim man
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The Nespilim were a small Salishan band living north of the Columbia in the valley of Nespilim river. Few representatives of the tribe survive.
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Nespilim woman
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Nespilim girl
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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
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Luqaiot - Kittitas
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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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Country of the Kutenai
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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 duck hunter
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In the gray dawn of a foggy morning the hunter crouches in his canoe among the rushes, waiting for the water-fowl to come within range.
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Embarking - Kutenai
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The picture was made near the southern end of Flathead lake, in northwestern Montana.
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On the shore of the lake - Kutenai
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The distant foothills of the Rocky mountains occupy the background.
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Crossing the lake - Kutenai
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Kutenai girls
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Kutenai camp
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The scene is a thinly wooded, sandy peninsula at the southern end of Flathead lake. Here the author's camp was pitched in 1909 during some weeks of investigation into the primitive life of the Kutenai.
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Rush gatherer - Kutenai
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Rushes gathered in swamps and in the shallows of the lakes were dried and strung together into mats, which primitively were used for lodge-covers, mattresses, canoe cushions, and for a variety of domestic purposes.
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