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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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Hooper Bay youth
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Twenty
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Nunivak children
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Children and adults alike of the Nunivak group are healthy, as a rule, and exceptionally happy because they have been little affected by contact with civilization.
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Reindeer - Nunivak
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Formerly caribou were of great importance to the Nunivak Eskimo, both for food and for many utilitarian purposes; but they have been entirely superseded by the reindeer introduced to the island.
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Boys in kaiak - Nunivak
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Eskimo boys are trained in manly pursuits from their earliest years and are honored with feasts on taking their first game.
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Kenowun - Nunivak
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The nose-ring and labret of beads are typical.
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Drummer - Nunivak
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This tambourine-like instrument, its head made of walrus stomach or bladder, is used chiefly in the winter ceremonies. Such drums vary in diameter from a foot to five feet; the one illustrated measured three feet six inches. When beaten, the drum is held in position varying from horizontal to vertical. The drum-stick is a slender wand.
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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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Ready for sealing - Nunivak
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The kaiak of this Nunivak sealer is fully equipped with the apparatus required for augmenting the family larder. Sealing is of prime importance to the people of Nunivak island, the seal being sought in spring and in fall during their northward and southward migrations respectively.
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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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Hooper Bay youth
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Village - Hooper Bay
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This settlement consists of dwellings dug and built into a hill with such little regard for order that the entrance to one may open on the roof of a house below.
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King Island village from the sea
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The King islanders occupy dwellings erected on stilts on the cliff side, giving their village an unusual and highly picturesque appearance.
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King Island village
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The settlement consists of only twenty-nine houses, built irregularly on seven terraces, the lowest about eighty or a hundred feet above sea-level.
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King Island homes
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Qunaninru - King Island
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Launching the boat - Little Diomede Island
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Diomede boat crew, Asiatic shore in distance
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The crew are putting out from their island home from which the Asiatic coast is readily visible.
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Old stone house - Diomede Island
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Launching the whale boat - Cape Prince of Wales
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The Eskimo of the Alaskan coast are expert whale-hunters, even with such seemingly flimsy skin craft as that shown here and in Plate 709.
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Cape Prince of Wales man
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Whaling crew - Cape Prince of Wales
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A Kotzebue man
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Although commercial cloth has displaced the native skin garments to some extent, the old-style tailoring is adhered to.
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Foggy day - Kotzebue
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Starting up the Noatak River - Kotzebue
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Although it has become reduced in recent times, the Kotzebue people still carry on a brisk trade with the Eskimo of the mainland and islands, as well as with those of the Siberian coast.
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Jackson, interpreter at Kotzebue
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Muskrat-hunter - Kotzebue
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Arriving home - Noatak
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Sails were an invention of great importance to the Alaskan Eskimo, whose material culture indeed reached a highly advanced stage.
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Ola - Noatak
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Family group - Noatak
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Noatak kaiaks
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These skin-covered craft, of marvellous lightness and efficiency, are of outstanding importance to the Eskimo. Remarkable too is the manner in which they are handled by their owners, who are exceedingly expert even in rough water.
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Kobuk costume
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