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Performing Archive
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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
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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
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Introduction to Consulting with Tribes by Ulia Gosart
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Information on how to participate in Performing Archive
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Lefthand - Comanche
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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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A Comanche mother
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A Comanche
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Comanche mothers
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A little Comanche
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Nineteen
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As it was in the old days
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In early days, before white men invaded the Great Plains and ruthlessly slaughtered them by the hundreds of thousands, bison were of prime importance to the hunting tribes of the vast region in which those animals had their range. The bison was not only the chief source of food of the Plains Indians, but its skin was made into clothing, shields, packs, bags, snowshoes, and tent and boat covers; the horns were fashioned into spoons and drinking vessels; the sinew was woven into reatas, belts, personal ornaments, and the covers of sacred bundles; and the dried droppings, "buffalo-chips," were used as fuel. So dependent on the buffalo were these Indians that it became sacred to them, and many were the ceremonies performed for the purpose of promoting the increase of the herds.
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A Wichita
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The Wichita belong to the Caddoan linguistic family and in the earliest historical times lived in the Arkansas valley in the present Kansas. Here they were visited by Coronado and his force of Spaniards in 1541, in a region known to them, through Indian informants, as the Province of Quivira. Then, as in later times, after moving southward, the Wichita lived in grass-houses.
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Wichita grass-house
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The relatively permanent character of the typical dwelling of the Wichita indicates the sedentary life of this tribe. They were farmers in the main, but hunted the buffalo and other game in season.
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Grass-house ceremony - Wichita
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The rites performed at the building of a grass-house are described in Volume XIX, pages 64-72.
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Henry - Wichita
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The native names of the Indians are often unpronounceable by untrained white people, who therefore apply such incongruous English names as this and the following.
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Story of the Washita
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An Old Cheyenne warrior recounts the famous battle of the Washita in 1868, when the tribe was severely defeated by General Custer.
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On the Canadian River
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The name of the Canadian river was not derived from any association with Canada or the Canadians, but from the Spanish cañada, on account of the high, cut banks of the stream. The Canadian originally divided the lands claimed by the Quapaw on the south and those of the Great and Little Osage on the both. The Indians in the picture are Cheyenne.
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Cheyenne sun-dance lodge
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For an account of the Sun-dance ceremony and the erection of the lodge among the Southern Cheyenne, see Volume XIX, pages 121-128.
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Hotamitaye Society, Cheyenne sun-dance
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The members of this and other bands, which were created by the Prophet of Cheyenne legend, go to the forest for the poles with which to build the lodge. While in the forest they decorate themselves and their horses with willow branches, leaving the rearmost horsemen to drag the poles to camp.
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Water rite purification, Cheyenne animal dance
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The legend of the Animal dance is given on pages 133-135 of Volume XIX.
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Cheyenne chief
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The Cheyenne belong to the Algonquian linguistic family and therefore are related to the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and to the Arapaho of the north, and, much more remotely, to many of the tribes that once lives along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Midwest. They are now divided into the Northern Cheyenne, living in Montana, and the Southern Cheyenne who were assigned a reservation in the present Oklahoma in 1867.
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Cheyenne costume
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This woman's deerskin costume, ornamented with porcupine-quill embroidery and with beads and fringe, is characteristic of that of the Cheyenne; but such is now worn only on gala occasions and probably ere very long will be a thing of the past.
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Dog woman - Cheyenne
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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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Black Belly - Cheyenne
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The extreme age of this Cheyenne is quite apparent.
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Old warrior - Arapaho
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The Arapaho, of Algonquian stock like the Cheyenne, are divided into Northern and a Southern tribe, the former living on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming and the latter on the reservation assigned to them and the Cheyenne in the present Oklahoma in 1867.
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Standing Two - Oto
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The Oto belong to the great Siouan linguistic family and originally formed, with other tribes, a part of the Winnebago. The typical ceremonial head-dress of the Oto of the present time is shown here and in the nest three plates.
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Lone Chief - Oto
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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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John Abbott - Osage
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The Osage (corrupted from Whzahzae, their own name) is a Siouan tribe - the wealthiest of all Indians, and probably the richest people in the world, population considered. They are most closely related to the Omaha, Quapaw, Ponca, and Kansa, with whom they once formed a single body.
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John Quapaw - Hunta Wakunta
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The Quapaw are another Siouan tribe, otherwise known as Akansa, from which Arkansas river and state derive their name.
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Esipermi - Comanche
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A Comanche mother
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Peyote drummer
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The Peyote rite as practised by the Indians of Oklahoma is described in Volume XIX. No Indian custom has been the subject of greater controversy or has led to the adoption of more laws and regulations with a view of abolishing it, largely because its effects have been misunderstood by white people.
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