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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
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David J. Kim
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Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
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The Pomo formerly occupied about half the area of Mendocino, Sonoma, and Lake counties, besides a small isolated territory in Glenn and Colusa. The survivors are found in greatest number in the vicinity of the town of Ukiah. This name, though it is applied to the original portrait as a nickname, is a word of Pomo origin, from yo, south, and kaia, valley.
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Painting on Deerskin
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Painting on brain tanned deerskin. The skin is an off white/grayish color. The paintings on the skin are yellow, brown, white, blue, green, black, orange and red. Various figures are painted on the skin which include, moons, equal sided crosses or "x", 3 anthropomorphic figures, one human head, a bird, and circles. There is a zig zag design the goes around the perimeter of the skin. There is a 1 cm wide hole in the skin in the lower left quadrant. The edges of the skin are fairly straight and smooth, indicating it was cut/trimmed to a roughly rectangular shape. The hide painting appears to be the same one illustrated in "Sacred buckskin - Apache", plate facing page 31, in The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.01, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1907. See pp. 29-35 for explanatory text, where it is identified as a medicine skin formerly owned by Navajo medicine man Hashke Nilnte, and acquired by Curtis from Hashke Nilnte's wife. The symbolism is then outlined in detail in the publication.View this plate online here: http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.01.book.00000074.p&volume=1#nav .
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Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
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The Pomo formerly occupied about half the area of Mendocino, Sonoma, and Lake counties, besides a small isolated territory in Glenn and Colusa. The survivors are found in greatest number in the vicinity of the town of Ukiah. This name, though it is applied to the original portrait as a nickname, is a word of Pomo origin, from yo, south, and kaia, valley.
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Hunter - Lake Pomo
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The scene is Clear lake. The abundant tules along its shallows formerly supplied the natives with material for house-coverings, mats, garments, and balsas, and sheltered teeming flocks of waterfowl.
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Burden-basket - Pomo
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With her basket supported bya tump-line passing across her head, and with seed-beater in hand, this capable matron is ready for a day in the fields harvesting wild seeds, which she will parch and crush into a nutritious and appetizing meal known by the Mexican name pinole.
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Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
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Shatila - Pomo
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Summer camp - Lake Pomo
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Except that it was larger and rather more substantial, the winter house of the Lake Pomo was identical with its tule-covered framework of willow poles.
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Wild grapes - Pomo
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Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
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The round-stem tule, Scirpus lacustris, was used principally for thatching houses, for making mats by stringing them laterally on parallel cords, and, securely lashed together in long bundles, in the construction of serviceable and quickly made canoes.
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Pomo girl
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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
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Coast Pomo woman
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Pomo seed-gathering utensils
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The group includes a tight-mesh burden-basket for seeds, an open-mesh burden-basket for acorns and other nuts, two winnowing trays, and a seed-beater with which the seeds are brushed from the plant into the burden-basket.
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Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle
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Coast Pomo girl
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Fishing camp - Lake Pomo
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Large quantities of species locally called black-fish are still taken annually by the Lake Pomo. The fish are split down the back, and after the removal of backbone, head, and entrails, are hung on pole racks to dry in the sun for about two weeks, after which they are thoroughly cured in smoke-houses. Tule huts are not now seen, the one here shown having been built especially for the occasion.
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Aged Pomo woman
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Canoe of tules - Pomo
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In an emergency a craft even more simple than this was made by fashioning a long bundle of tules, which the boatman rode astride with his legs in the water.
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Construction of a tule shelter - Lake Pomo
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Sherwood Valley girl - Pomo
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A mixed-blood Coast Pomo
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A Coast Pomo man
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Koshonono - Pomo
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An eastern Pomo
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A Pomo camp
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A Pomo girl
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A Coast Pomo
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Eastern Pomo woman
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In the tule swamp - Lake Pomo
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Pomo baskets
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Pomo baskets and magnesite beads
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Cooking acorns - Lake Pomo
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Conception rock near Ukiah - Pomo
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Basket used in puberty rites - Pomo
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Pomo dance costume
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A summer camp - Lake Pomo
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On Russian River - Pomo
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Summer shelter - Lake Pomo
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Coast Pomo with feather head-dress
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Coast Pomo bridal costume
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Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
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Gathering seeds - Coast Pomo
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Camp under the oaks - Lake Pomo
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Pomo mother and child
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Fourteen
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Mitat - Wailaki
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The Wailaki were a group of loosely connected Athapascan bands occupying the watershed of the North fork of Eel river in northwestern California. About two hundred are now quartered with the Yuki on Round Valley reservation.
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Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
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The Pomo formerly occupied about half the area of Mendocino, Sonoma, and Lake counties, besides a small isolated territory in Glenn and Colusa. The survivors are found in greatest number in the vicinity of the town of Ukiah. This name, though it is applied to the original portrait as a nickname, is a word of Pomo origin, from yo, south, and kaia, valley.
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Hunter - Lake Pomo
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The scene is Clear lake. The abundant tules along its shallows formerly supplied the natives with material for house-coverings, mats, garments, and balsas, and sheltered teeming flocks of waterfowl.
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Burden-basket - Pomo
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With her basket supported bya tump-line passing across her head, and with seed-beater in hand, this capable matron is ready for a day in the fields harvesting wild seeds, which she will parch and crush into a nutritious and appetizing meal known by the Mexican name pinole.
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Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
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On the shores of Clear Lake
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Shatila - Pomo
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Summer camp - Lake Pomo
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Except that it was larger and rather more substantial, the winter house of the Lake Pomo was identical with its tule-covered framework of willow poles.
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Wild grapes - Pomo
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Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
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The round-stem tule, Scirpus lacustris, was used principally for thatching houses, for making mats by stringing them laterally on parallel cords, and, securely lashed together in long bundles, in the construction of serviceable and quickly made canoes.
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Pomo girl
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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
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Coast Pomo woman
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Pomo seed-gathering utensils
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The group includes a tight-mesh burden-basket for seeds, an open-mesh burden-basket for acorns and other nuts, two winnowing trays, and a seed-beater with which the seeds are brushed from the plant into the burden-basket.
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Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle
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Coast Pomo girl
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Fishing camp - Lake Pomo
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Large quantities of species locally called black-fish are still taken annually by the Lake Pomo. The fish are split down the back, and after the removal of backbone, head, and entrails, are hung on pole racks to dry in the sun for about two weeks, after which they are thoroughly cured in smoke-houses. Tule huts are not now seen, the one here shown having been built especially for the occasion.
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Aged Pomo woman
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Canoe of tules - Pomo
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In an emergency a craft even more simple than this was made by fashioning a long bundle of tules, which the boatman rode astride with his legs in the water.
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Wappo
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The Wappo were a Yukian group occupying a detached area in the northeastern corner of Sonoma county. Only a small band survive in Alexander valley near Healdsburg.
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Wappo woman
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Otila - Maidu
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Otila, otherwise Jack Franco, was the principal source of information regarding the Maidu. Born at the important village Michopdo in the lowlands of Sacramento river about he year 1845, as a young boy he experienced the untainted native life before the influx of miners and settlers proved the undoing of the Indians. As a youth he rode the range for General John Bidwell, and his old age he has spent in company with a small group of his people on the Bidwell ranch at Chico.
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Miwok head-man
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Fishing-pool - Southern Miwok
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Besides a small district at the southern end of Clear lake, and larger territory that included all of Marin and a part of Sonoma county, Miwok Indians occupied the western slope of the Sierra Nevada from the summit to the San Joaquin plain, and from Fresno river in the south to Cosumnes river in the north. The higher regions are veined with brawling mountain brooks, which converge into such larger streams as Merced, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Calaveras, adm Mokelumne. Yosemite and many of the sequoia groves lie in Miwok territor
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Southern Miwok
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Fisherman - Southern Miwok
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Chukchansi Yokuts
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The Chukchansi, one of the northern divisions of the Yokuts, occupied the headwaters of Fresno river and the northern tributaries of the San Joaquin, in Madera county, California.
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Yauelmani Yokuts
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The Yauelmani formerly lived in the plains north of Kern lake. The survivors are on Tule River reservation in Tulare county.
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Art as old as the tree - southern Yokuts
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Rattlesnake design in Yokuts basketry
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Basketry was the principal, and remains the only, manufacturing industry of the Yokuts. Both the coiled and the twined process are followed, but the better baskets, and by far the greater number, are coiled. The examples shown in the plate are coiled, and of the kind used for cooking liquid foods by means of heated stones.
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By the pool - Tule River Reservation
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Yokuts basketry designs - A
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Yokuts basketry designs - B
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Chukchansi Yokuts type
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Chukchansi matron
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Quiet waters - Tule River Reservation
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Tule River reservation, a tract of nearly fifty thousand acres on the edge of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Tulare county, is the home of about a hundred and fifty Indians, practically all of whom are members of the Yokuts family. Only a small portion of the reservation is suited to agriculture.
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Yaundanchi Yokuts woman
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The Yaudanchi formerly controlled the territory about the headwaters of Tule river in Tulare county, including the present Tule River reservation, where the survivors are quartered.
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"Portrait"
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Geronimo - Apache
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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.
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Alchise - Apache
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Chief of the White Mountain Apache. A well-known character, having been a scout with General Crook. Colonel Cooley, who was chief of scouts under Crook, says a braver man than Alchise never lived. He was about twenty-two when Fort Apache, then Camp Ord, was established in 1870, making the year of his birth about 1848. This portrait was made at Alchise's camp on White river in the spring of 1903.
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Kaviu - Pima
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The Pima are bright, active, progressive Indians, as the portrait of the typical man of the tribe attests.
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Captain Charley - Maricopa
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This portrait shows clearly the strongly Yuman cast of features retained by this branch of the stock.
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Tonovige - Havasupai
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This portrait was made in winter while a party of Havasupai were encamped in the high country above their cañon home. As a snowstorm was raging at the time, the woman's hair became dotted with flakes, as the picture reveals.
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Jack Red Cloud
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The subject of this portrait is the son of the Ogalala chief Red Cloud. (See No. 103.)
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Little Hawk
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This portrait exhibits the typical Brule physiognomy.
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Yellow Kidney - Piegan
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The portrait shows Apuyotoksi ("light-colored kidney") wearing a wolf-skin war-bonnet.
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Cheyenne type
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The original of this portrait is Wako'yami ("his horse bobtailed") of the Northern Cheyenne.
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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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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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Typical Nez Perce
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This portrait presents a splendid type of the Nez Perce man.
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Lawyer - Nez Perce
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The original of this portrait is a member of the family of that Lawyer who played a prominent part in the Nez Perce affairs in the years following the treaty of 1855.
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Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
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The Pomo formerly occupied about half the area of Mendocino, Sonoma, and Lake counties, besides a small isolated territory in Glenn and Colusa. The survivors are found in greatest number in the vicinity of the town of Ukiah. This name, though it is applied to the original portrait as a nickname, is a word of Pomo origin, from yo, south, and kaia, valley.
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Datsolali, Washo basket-maker
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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.
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Ambrosio Martinez - San Juan
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The original of this portrait could readily pass for an Indian of the southern plains. The influence of Plains blood is noticeable at all Tewa pueblos, and especially at San Juan, the most northerly of them. The typical Pueblo man is small-featured and of short to medium stature.
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Zuni governor
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This portrait may well be taken as representative of the typical Pueblo physiognomy.
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Old Eagle - Oto
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The head-dress of this Oto is characteristic of the older style, like that worn also by the related Osage in plate 680 and the adopted head-dress of the Comanche in plate 683. The medal worn by Old Eagle, in this case bearing the portrait of Lincoln, is like other medals given by the Government to noted chiefs from Washington's time.
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Esipermi - Comanche
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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.
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Uyowutcha - Nunivak
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The effect of trade is shown in this and in other portraits by the buttons with which this child's cap is ornamented; otherwise the costume is quite aboriginal.
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Ugiyaku - Nunivak
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A portrait of the subject shown also in Plate 693, with a different and modified costume.
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Curtis and His Collaborators
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part of Contextualizing Curtis
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Focus on the Portraits: Video Essay
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Video Essay by Heather Blackmore
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AfterImages
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Considering the Curtis Portraits
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Geronimo
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part of Visualizing the "Vanishing Race"
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The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs
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The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Bibliography
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The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs
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The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Endnotes
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Warm tones and Wigs
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Chief Josef –Nez Perce
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Jackson and Curtis at the end
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Upshaw – Apsaroke
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Princess Angeline
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Visualizing the "Vanishing Race": the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis Bibliography
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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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Hesquiat woman
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A woman of Hesquiat
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A Zuni Woman
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“A Zuni Woman”, volume 17, portfolio plate 614, photogravure, 46 x 31 cm., Special Collection, Honnold Library, Claremont.
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Pima matron
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A representative Pima woman of middle age.
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Judith - Mohave
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A young Mohave woman about eighteen years of age.
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Tonovige - Havasupai
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This portrait was made in winter while a party of Havasupai were encamped in the high country above their cañon home. As a snowstorm was raging at the time, the woman's hair became dotted with flakes, as the picture reveals.
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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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Sioux girl
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A young Sioux woman in a dress made entirely of deerskin, embroidered with beads and porcupine-quills.
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Two Bear Woman - Piegan
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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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Nespilim woman
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Piopio-maksmaks - Wallawalla
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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.
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Suquamish woman
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The Suquamish were one of numerous Puget Sound tribes.
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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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Lummi woman
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Koskimo woman
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The head is a good illustration of the extremes to which the Quatsino Sound tribes carried the practice of artificially lengthening the skulls of their infants.
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Hesquiat woman
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Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
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Nootka woman
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Haiyahl - Nootka
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A Nootka woman in profile, with a shell nose-ring and fur-edged bark blanket.
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Hopi woman
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Klamath woman
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Old Klamath woman
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Hupa woman
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It would be difficult to find a better type of Hupa female physiognomy.
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Coast Pomo woman
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Aged Pomo woman
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Wappo woman
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Yaundanchi Yokuts woman
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The Yaudanchi formerly controlled the territory about the headwaters of Tule river in Tulare county, including the present Tule River reservation, where the survivors are quartered.
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Cupeño woman
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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
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Serrano woman of Tejon
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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
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Desert Cahuilla woman
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Diegueño woman of Santa Ysabel
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Diegueño woman of Campo
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Datsolali, Washo basket-maker
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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.
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Washo woman
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Walvia
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Walvia is a characteristic type of Taos womanhood.
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Taos woman
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Acoma woman
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Zuni woman
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Bowls of food are often thus carried on the head with a woven yucca ring during an intermission in or following a ceremony, when the participants feast.
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A Cree woman
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Dog woman - Cheyenne
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The woman's dress is embellished with elk-teeth.
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Woista - Cheyenne woman
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Remarkable strength of character is depicted in the features of this woman, and indeed in those of all the Cheyenne. Their former life was such that only the fittest could survive.
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Ugiyaku - Nunivak
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This contented young woman wears a nose-ring and a labret similar to those of the girl in Plate 691. Her waterproof hooded parka is made of intestinal parchment.
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Woman and child - Nunivak
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An Apache-Mohave woman
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Good Day Woman - Ogalala
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Flathead woman - Apsaroke
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Hidatsa woman
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Scattered Corn Woman - Mandan
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Arikara woman
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Piegan woman
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Cheyenne woman
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Cheyenne young woman
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Spokan woman
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Cayuse woman
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Wishham young woman
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Cowichan woman
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Chimakum woman
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A Clayoquot woman
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A Makah woman
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A woman of Kiusta - Haida
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A woman of Massett - Haida
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A Hopi woman
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Hupa woman
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Karok woman
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Achomawi woman
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Klamath woman
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A Kato woman
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A Wailaki woman
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Old woman in mourning - Yuki
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A Yuki woman
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A southern Miwok woman
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A Maidu woman
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A Chukchansi woman
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