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Performing Archive
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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
Front Page for Visualizing the "Vanishing Race" path
Curtis' Image and Life: The Network of The North American Indian, Inc.
An experiment with data visualization approach to understand and contextualize Curtis' images and his life
Media, Technology and Mediations
Curtis's Technology, Relationships to Media and Style
Contextualizing Curtis, The North American Indian, and Race
the collection of essays from the contributors
Consulting with Tribes as Part of Archive Development
Introduction to Consulting with Tribes by Ulia Gosart
Contributing Archives
Information on how to participate in Performing Archive
Browsing the Media
A path of paths that allow users to cut through the collection in a variety of ways.
Acknowledgements and Project Information
Project Network
Jacqueline Wernimont
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David J. Kim
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Stephan Schonberg
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Amy Borsuk
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Beatrice Schuster
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Heather Blackmore
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Ulia Gosart (Popova)
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Cowichan canoes
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The scene looks out from the mouth of Cowichan river upon Cowichan harbor.
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Cowichan
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Tule gatherer - Cowichan
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The manufacture of tule mats for use as carpets, house-walls, mattresses, capes, and sails is still in many localities an important duty of women.
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Cowichan warrior
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Cowichan girl
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A maiden of noble birth clad in goat-hair robe.
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Spearing salmon - Cowichan
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The view includes the deep slope of Tsohelim mountain and a portion of the village Henipsum at the mouth of Cowichan river, Vancouver island.
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Cowichan canoes
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The scene looks out from the mouth of Cowichan river upon Cowichan harbor.
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Masked dancer - Cowichan
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The dancer personates one of the mythic ancestors who descended from the sky. Note the huge, carved house-post at the right.
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Cowichan River
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Quamichan Lake
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On the shore of this beautiful lake, which is near Duncans, British Columbia, the Cowichan of Vancouver island obtain their supplies of tules.
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Cowichan warrior
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Cowichan River
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Qamutsun village - Cowichan
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Henipsum village - Cowichan
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Cowichan woman
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Looking up Cowichan River
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Goathair blanket - Cowichan
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Warrior's scalp head-dress - Cowichan
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Warrior's feather head-dress - Cowichan
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Gathering tules - Cowichan
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Tying the bundle - Cowichan
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The headstrap - Cowichan
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Homeward bound - Cowichan
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Drying tules - Cowichan
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Carved figure - Cowichan
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A Cowichan mask
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Masked dancer - Cowichan
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Nine
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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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Mouth of Quinault River
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The village of the Quinault stands at the mouth of this stream a few hundred yards from the ocean. From the river they gain their livelihood in salmon fishing.
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On Quinault River
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Hleastunuh - Skokomish
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Tsatsalatsa - Skokomish
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Chief's daughter - Skokomish
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Pride of birth played a prominent role in the life of the Pacific Coast Indians. Society was rigidly divided into nobility, common people, and slaves taken in war. No woman of common birth could afford the luxury of the fur robe worn by the subject of the picture.
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Mat house - Skokomish
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Fishing camp - Skokomish
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Quilcene boy
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Lelehalt - Quilcene
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Suquamish woman
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The Suquamish were one of numerous Puget Sound tribes.
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Squaxon matron
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The Squaxon were a small tribe at the very head of Puget Sound.
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Puget Sound type
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Puget Sound baskets
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Basketry continues to be an important industry of many Puget Sound tribes, the bulk of the product passing into the hands of dealers. Women of the Skokomish band of Twana are especially skillful in weaving soft, flexible baskets.
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Basket maker
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Basket carrier
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When a heavy burden is to be borne, the trumpline crosses the forehead and the bearer walks stooping.
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Evening on Puget Sound
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The photograph was made near the city of Seattle.
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Mussel gatherer
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Princess Angeline
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This aged woman, daughter of the chief Siahl (Seattle), was for many years a familiar figure in the streets of Seattle.
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Tule gatherer - Cowichan
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The manufacture of tule mats for use as carpets, house-walls, mattresses, capes, and sails is still in many localities an important duty of women.
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Sunset on Puget Sound
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Clam digger
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Clams are an important tool to those who live in the vicinity of the clam beds; to others they are a comparative luxury obtained by barter. The implement of the digger is a wooden dibble.
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Homeward
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Snoqualmu type
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The Snoqualmu were a vigorous tribe inhabiting the watershed of Snoqualmie river, Washington.
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Lummi type
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The Lummi held considerable territory in the vicinity of Lummi bay, Washington, as well as many of the San Juan islands.
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Lummi woman
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Cowichan warrior
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Cowichan girl
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A maiden of noble birth clad in goat-hair robe.
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Spearing salmon - Cowichan
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The view includes the deep slope of Tsohelim mountain and a portion of the village Henipsum at the mouth of Cowichan river, Vancouver island.
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Cowichan canoes
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The scene looks out from the mouth of Cowichan river upon Cowichan harbor.
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Masked dancer - Cowichan
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The dancer personates one of the mythic ancestors who descended from the sky. Note the huge, carved house-post at the right.
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Cowichan River
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Quamichan Lake
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On the shore of this beautiful lake, which is near Duncans, British Columbia, the Cowichan of Vancouver island obtain their supplies of tules.
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