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Acoma Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Acoma woman
2. Acoma water girls
3. A morning chat - Acoma
4. An Acoma man
5. Among the rocks - Acoma
6. Fiesta of San Estevan, A - Acoma
7. Fiesta of San Estevan, B - Acoma
8. Procession of San Estevan, A - Acoma
9. Procession of San Estevan, B - Acoma
10. Depositing San Estevan in the booth - Acoma
11. Acoma water carriers
12. Acoma belfry
13. At the gateway - Acoma
14. Acoma from the south
15. Feast day at Acoma
16. Old trail at Acoma
17. Acoma roadway
18. At the old well of Acoma
19. Inscription rock Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.
20. The Acoma and the enchanted mesa
21. Native conception of a kopishtaia with mask and tablita - Acoma
22. Cliff-perched Acoma
23. Crumbling walls of the old church - Acoma
24. Acoma from the churchtop
25. Church and cemetery - Acoma
26. Mission and church at Acoma
27. Laguna cooking-pot and Acoma water-jars
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Sixteen Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Taos water girls
2. Iahla
3. North pueblo at Taos
4. Walvia
5. Taos woman
6. Isleta man
7. Francisca Chiwiwi - Isleta
8. Jemez architecture On account of the comparative inaccessibility of its site on Rio Jemez, a westerly affluent of the Rio Grande, Jemez is annoyed by fewer white visitors than almost any other pueblo. The reticence and the mental sluggishness of its inhabitants do not encourage the ethnologist. The Jemez played a leading part in the rebellion of 1680 and were so severely punished by Vargas that their preference for isolation is comprehensible. They have long been intimate with the Navaho and considerable racial mixture has resulted.
9. Jemez fiscal The office of fiscal, like that of governor and alguacil, is of Spanish origin, and its incumbents are charged with the supervision of activities connected with the church, such as burial of the dead and physical care of the church building. In general the church is an institution superimposed on pueblo life: it has nowhere become an integral part of it. At Jemez several centuries of effort at Christianization have been without tangible result, except that the presence of missionaries has been a more or less beneficial object lesson in a better mode of life
10. Tuvahe - Jemez
11. Cochiti and Sia pottery
12. Ti'mu - Cochiti
13. Aiyowitsa - Cochiti
14. Lucero - Santo Domingo Photographing a native of Santo Domingo is comparable to hunting big game with a camera. This pueblo measures its contentment inversely to the extent of unavoidable contact with the hated white race. A guard is detailed to watch the Catholic priest when he visits the village, and the Government has pursued the wise policy of detailing Indian teachers to the local school. The Santo Domingans long resisted the gratuitous digging of wells to be equipped with windmills, continue to deny their sick children the services of the Government physician, and resist the activities of census enumerators. There is no doubt that the death sentence would be past on any individual found guilty of revealing native practices, and if the priestly authorities learned that Lucero sold his likeness to a white man he doubtless had an unpleasant half hour.
15. Kyello - Santo Domingo
16. On a Sia housetop
17. 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.
18. Shuati - Sia
19. Sia street scene Sia is situated on the north bank of Rio Jemez, a few miles below Jemez pueblo. Ancient Sia, having participated in the revolt of 1680, was completely destroyed and a large number of its inhabitants were killed by Governor Domingo de Cruzate in 1689. The pueblo was rebuilt, probably on nearly the same site, and during the remaining years of this troubled period Sia remained actively friendly with the Spaniards. Once a populous centre, it housed only one hundred and fifty-four persons in 1924.
20. Sia buffalo mask
21. Acoma belfry
22. Feast day at Acoma
23. Acoma from the south
24. Old trail at Acoma
25. Acoma water carriers
26. At the gateway - Acoma
27. Acoma roadway
28. At the old well of Acoma
29. Acoma woman
30. Acoma water girls
31. Paguate Paguate is the oldest and largest of ten villages subsidiary to Laguna, the patent pueblo of this group. It appears to have been founded about the middle of the eighteenth century. Laguna itself dates from 1699. The two-story structure at the right, one of the two oldest buildings at Paguate, was a watchtower erected for the defense of the farming population from the roving Navaho, who disputed possession of this locality.
32. Laguna architecture
33. Replastering a Paguate house
34. Laguna watchtower
35. Paguate entrance
36. Paguate watchtower
"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.