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Pomo girl

29482 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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Pomo Erik Loyer
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1. Painting on Deerskin 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 .
2. Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
3. Hunter - Lake Pomo
4. Burden-basket - Pomo
5. Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
6. Shatila - Pomo
7. Summer camp - Lake Pomo
8. Wild grapes - Pomo
9. Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
10. 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
11. Coast Pomo woman
12. Pomo seed-gathering utensils
13. Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle
14. Coast Pomo girl
15. Fishing camp - Lake Pomo
16. Aged Pomo woman
17. Canoe of tules - Pomo
18. Construction of a tule shelter - Lake Pomo
19. Sherwood Valley girl - Pomo
20. A mixed-blood Coast Pomo
21. A Coast Pomo man
22. Koshonono - Pomo
23. An eastern Pomo
24. A Pomo camp
25. A Pomo girl
26. A Coast Pomo
27. Eastern Pomo woman
28. In the tule swamp - Lake Pomo
29. Pomo baskets
30. Pomo baskets and magnesite beads
31. Cooking acorns - Lake Pomo
32. Conception rock near Ukiah - Pomo
33. Basket used in puberty rites - Pomo
34. Pomo dance costume
35. A summer camp - Lake Pomo
36. On Russian River - Pomo
37. Summer shelter - Lake Pomo
38. Coast Pomo with feather head-dress
39. Coast Pomo bridal costume
40. Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
41. Gathering seeds - Coast Pomo
42. Camp under the oaks - Lake Pomo
43. Pomo mother and child
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Fourteen Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Mitat - Wailaki
2. Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
3. Hunter - Lake Pomo
4. Burden-basket - Pomo
5. Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
6. On the shores of Clear Lake
7. Shatila - Pomo
8. Summer camp - Lake Pomo
9. Wild grapes - Pomo
10. Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
11. 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
12. Coast Pomo woman
13. Pomo seed-gathering utensils
14. Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle
15. Coast Pomo girl
16. Fishing camp - Lake Pomo
17. Aged Pomo woman
18. Canoe of tules - Pomo
19. Wappo
20. Wappo woman
21. Otila - Maidu 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.
22. Miwok head-man
23. Fishing-pool - Southern Miwok 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
24. Southern Miwok
25. Fisherman - Southern Miwok
26. Chukchansi Yokuts
27. Yauelmani Yokuts
28. Art as old as the tree - southern Yokuts
29. Rattlesnake design in Yokuts basketry
30. By the pool - Tule River Reservation
31. Yokuts basketry designs - A
32. Yokuts basketry designs - B
33. Chukchansi Yokuts type
34. Chukchansi matron
35. Quiet waters - Tule River Reservation
36. Yaundanchi Yokuts woman
"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.