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Hesquiat Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eleven Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Bowman
2. On the shores at Nootka
3. Hesquiat root digger
4. Berry-picker - Clayoquot
5. Seaweed gatherer
6. Whale ceremonial - Clayoquot
7. Boarding the canoe
8. Clayoquot girl
9. Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound
10. Nootka method of spearing
11. Oldest man of Nootka
12. Ceremonial bathing
13. Hesquiat woman
14. Clayoquot type
15. Hesquiat maiden
16. Into the shadow - Clayoquot
17. Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
18. Whaler
19. Bark gatherer
20. Nootka woman
21. Makah maiden
22. At Nootka
23. Waiting for the canoe
24. Haiyahl - Nootka
25. Shores of Nootka Sound
26. Nootka man
27. On the west coast of Vancouver Island
28. Fish spearing - Clayoquot The fisherman is taking flounders and other flatfish, which lie half-covered in the sand. At certain seasons, when the water is turbid by reason of the presence of excessive marine growth, objects on the bottom of a quiet bay can be discerned at a surprising depth. It is frequently assumed that the prows of North Coast canoes are carved in imitation of a dog's head, but the natives deny any intentional resemblance. The notch in the top of the prow, dividing it into two sections suggestive of an animal's ears, is simply a rest for the shaft of a spear or harpoon.
29. Return of halibut fishers
30. Whaler - Clayoquot
31. Whaler - Makah
32. Captured whale
33. Haida chief's tomb at Yan
34. Haida of Massett
35. Haida of Kung
36. Haida slate carvings
"Ceremony" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho
2. Alhkidokihi - Navaho
3. Hukalowapi ceremony
4. Arikara medicine fraternity
5. Arikara medicine ceremony - Dance of the fraternity
6. Announcement - Arikara
7. Arikara medicine ceremony - The Bears
8. Arikara medicine ceremony - Dance of the black-tail deer
9. Arikara medicine ceremony - The Ducks
10. Arikara medicine fraternity - The prayer
11. Travaux - Piegan
12. Medicine-pipe - Piegan Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and fur. Each one is believed to have been obtained long ago in some supernatural manner, as recounted in a myth. The medicine-pipe is ordinarily concealed in a bundle of wrappings, which are removed only when the sacred object is to be employed in healing sickness, or when it is to be transferred from one custodian to another in exchange for property. Such exchanges, occurring at intervals of a few years in the history of each pipe, are attended by much ceremony
13. Hamasaka in Tlu'wulahu costume with speaker's staff - Qagyuhl The principal chief of the Qagyuhl is depicted in a "button blanket" (which is simply a woollen blanket ornamented with hundreds of large mother-of-pearl buttons), cedar-bark neck-ring, and cedar-bark head-band. His right hand grasps a shaman's rattle, and his left the carved staff which, as a kind of emblem of office, a man always holds when making a speech. The button designs along the edge of the blanket represent "coppers" (see page 144). The tlu'wulahu ceremony is described on page 243 of Volume X.
14. Wedding party - Qagyuhl
15. Masked dancers - Qagyuhl The plate shows a group of masked and costumed performers in the winter ceremony. The chief who is holding the dance stands at the left, grasping a speaker's staff and wearing cedar-bark neck-ring and head-band and a few of the spectators are visible at the right. At the extreme left is seen a part of the painted mawihl through which the dancers emerge from the secret room; and in the centre, between the carved house-posts, is the Awaitlala hams'pek, showing three of the five mouths through which the hamatsa wriggle from the top to the bottom of the column. See page 175 and footnote.
16. Hesquiat maiden
17. Flute dancers at Tureva Spring The Flute dance is a religious ceremony concerned with bringing rain. It represents the legendary arrival of the Flute people in the Hopi country, their friendly encounter with the clans already there, and the rain-making rites subsequently performed by them for the common good. The episode here represented was photographed at Middle mesa. The individual seated near the right end is an albino, not a white man.
18. Hupa jumping dance costume The Jumping dance was an annual ceremony for averting pestilence. The head-dress worn by the dancers was a wide band of deerskin with rows of red woodpecker crests and a narrow edging of white deer-hair sewn on it. A deerskin robe was worn as a kilt, and each performer displayed all the shells and beads he possessed or could borrow. In the right hand was carried a straw-stuffed cylinder with a slit-like opening from end to end, an object the significance of which is unknown to the modern Hupa.
19. Tablita dancers and singers - San Ildefonso The ceremony called Koheye-hyare ("tablita dance"), occurring in June and again in September, is characterized by public dancing and singing for the purpose of bringing rain-clouds. The name refers to wooden "tablets" worn by female dancers. (See Volume XVII, illustrations facing pages 56,60,62,64,66,68.) In the plate the performers are dancing in to the plaza, men and women alternating in pairs. At the right is the group of singers, their aged leader slightly in advance and the drummer at one side.
20. Zuni woman
21. Tobacco ceremony - Apsaroke
22. Arikara corn ceremony : bearing out the osiers
23. Arikara medicine ceremony : The bears
24. Arikara medicine ceremony : Bear, buffalo, and night men
25. Arikara medicine ceremony : The buffalo
26. Arikara medicine ceremony : Night men dancing
27. Arikara medicine ceremony : The buffalo dancing
28. Dressing at Tawapa Spring, Walpi flute ceremony
29. Wall-painting for the summer Shiwanna ceremony - Santo Domingo
"Girl" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Sigesh - Apache
2. Apache Nalin
3. Qahatika water girl
4. Qahatika girl
5. Mosa - Mohave
6. Hwalya - Yuma
7. Maricopa girl
8. Ogalala girls
9. Sioux girl
10. Arikara girl
11. Cheyenne girl
12. Mountain camp - Yakima
13. 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
14. Kutenai girls
15. Fisherman - Wishham
16. Wishham girl The subject is clothed in a heavily beaded deerskin dress of the plains type. The throat is encircled by strands of shell beads of native manufacture, heirlooms which were obtained by the original Wishham possessor from the Pacific slope. Pendant on the breast are strands of larger beads of the same kind, as well as of various kinds brought into the country by the traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. An indispensable ornament of the well-born person was the dentalium-shell thrust through a perforation in the nasal septum; occasionally, as in this case, two such shells were connected by means of a bit of wood pushed into the hollow bases. Tied to the hair at each side of the face (see the following plate) is another dentalium-shell ornament, which is in reality an ear pendant transferred from the lobe of the ear (where its weight would be inconvenient) to the hair. The head-dress consists of shells, shell beads, commercial beads, and Chinese coins. The coins made their appearance in the Columbia River region at a comparatively early date. This form of head-dress was worn on special occasions by girls between the age of puberty and their marriage.
17. Wishham girl, profile
18. Wishham maid
19. Suquamish girl
20. Cowichan girl
21. Clayoquot girl
22. Hesquiat maiden
23. Loitering at the spring
24. Tewa girl
25. Watching the dancers
26. Hopi girl
27. East mesa girls
28. Tewa girls
29. Pomo girl Clam-shell beads of the kind here shown are still made by some of the old men. Fragments of shell are pierced and strung on a stem of the scouring-rush (Equisetum), which is then drawn backward and forward on a flat surface of sandstone until the fragments have become nearly circular. The feathered ornament is an ear-pendant, which in this case, because of its length and weight, is attached to a strand of hair. The large, dark-colored bead on one strand of the necklace is a cylinder of magnesite, a highly valued object
30. Coast Pomo girl
31. Taos water girls
32. Ti'mu - Cochiti
33. Sia buffalo dancer The Buffalo dance of the Keres is almost exactly the same as that of the Tewa. The performers are two young men with head-dresses of buffalo-hair and horns, and a girl wearing the usual female costume and a pair of small horns. The head of the hunters' society plays the part of guard. The dance is very strenuous, and the simulated actions of t he buffalo are quite realistic and readily comprehended by the spectator.
34. Acoma water girls
35. Povi-Tamu
36. Girl and jar - San Ildefonso
37. Tesuque buffalo dancers The Buffalo dance is performed, though the original object of exerting prenatural influence on the abundance and accessibility of the buffalo no longer prevails. The two male dancers are accompanied by the Buffalo Girl, who is fully clothed in native costume and has a pair of small horns on the head. These three give a very striking and dramatic performance under the watchful eye of the head of the hunters' society.
38. Zuni girls at the river
39. Zuni girl
40. Apache girl
41. Yuma girl
42. Sholya - Mohave girl
43. Yaqui girl
44. Maricopa water girl
45. Mandan girl
46. Piegan girls
47. Arapaho water girl
48. Young Kalispel girl
49. Kutenai girls at the lake-shore
50. Nez Perce girl
51. Umatilla girl
52. Cayuse girl
53. Wishham girls
54. Quinault girl
55. Quilliute girl
56. Tsawatenok girl
57. Hesquiat girl in cedar-bark costume
58. Hano and Walpi girls wearing atoo
59. An East Mesa girl.
60. Sherwood Valley girl - Pomo
61. A Pomo girl
62. An Isleta girl
63. A Taos girl
64. Boy and girl columns at Corn Mountain -
65. A Zuñi girl
66. A Nambe girl
67. A Cree girl
68. A Comanche girl
69. Girl's costume, Nunivak
70. Diomede girl
71. Selawik girl.