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Performing Archive
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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
Front Page for Visualizing the "Vanishing Race" path
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
Consulting with Tribes as Part of Archive Development
Introduction to Consulting with Tribes by Ulia Gosart
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Information on how to participate in Performing Archive
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Pima burial grounds
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Vol. 2 Illustrations
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Basketry Bowl
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Coiled basket; no pigment visible. Several areas of loss throughout, particularly around rim and base. Typed note inside vessel says: "18. Basketry Container. Tribe: Pima - Arizona. Design: utility basket w/no decorative design; made of bundled wheat straw and wound with mesquite bark. Size: 3 5/8" h., x 11" dia. Circa: 1900?? Condition..."
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Saguaro harvest - Pima
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The fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, called "hasen" by the Pima, forms a very important source of the food supply of the tribes of southern Arizona. This fruit is of about the size of a small pear, and is very sweet. It is eaten fresh, dried, or in the form of syrup, and a sort of wine is made from its juice. In gathering it the natives use a long pole with a wooden blade at the end.
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Pima baskets
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The baskets made by the Pima, Papago, and Qahatika, as well as by their Maricopa neighbors, are practically identical in form and design, but the Maricopa basketry is of somewhat superior workmanship. The four-armed cross, a form of the swastika, appears as the central feature in the decoration of a majority of the Piman and Maricopa baskets of to-day, and while the true signification here is not known with certainty, it is not impossible that it was designed originally to represent the winds of the four cardinal directions. Less than a generation ago the swastika was employed by the Pima to decorate their shields, and as a brand for their horses.
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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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Burden-bearer - Pima
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This illustration shows the typical burden basket of the several Piman tribes of southern Arizona, called kiho in the Piman language. Their mythology relates that once the kiho was an animate being, but owing to disobedience of divine laws when the people emerged from the under-world, it became inanimate, and has since been carried on the backs of women.
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Pima woman
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This pictures gives also an idea of the size attained by the giant cactus, or saguaro.
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Pima ki
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The old-time round dwelling of the Pima tribes. In construction it was much the same as the earth lodge of the tribes of the northern plains, the chief difference lying in the fact that its top is practically flat and it is not provided with an opening for the escape of the smoke, as well as in the lack of an extended or built-out entrance way. The ki was usually about 15 feet in diameter. As the winter climate of southern Arizona is very mild, only a small fire was needed to keep the ki warm in even the coldest weather, the smoke from which became absorbed in part by the earthen roof, or escaped through the doorway.
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Pima matron
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A representative Pima woman of middle age.
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Chijako - Pima
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A representative Pima man of middle age.
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Papago girl
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A particularly fine-looking Papago girl of as nearly pure blood as can be found in the region. The northern Piman tribes have been in direct contact with Spanish people for more than two centuries. Much of the early foreign blood, however, has become so blended that its physical influence is no longer apparent. Indeed there are many instances in which the Indians insist that their blood is entirely aboriginal, whereas in fact an infusion of alien blood is traceable several generations back.
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Gathering hanamh - Papago
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Hanamh is the Piman name for the cholla cactus and its fruit. The natives gather the fruit of this spiny plant in large quantities, and it forms a food of material importance to the several tribes living within its habitat. In gathering it they use rude tongs made from a split stick. After a basket is filled, the fruit is spread on the ground and bushed about with a small, stiff besom until the spines are worn off, or the spines are burned of in an open fire.
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Saguaro fruit-gatherers - Maricopa
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Like their Piman neighbors, the Maricopa gather large quantities of the fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, which they relish in its natural state as well as in the form of wine or preserve.
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A Pima home
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Pima granaries
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Ceremonial ki - Pima
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Gathering arrow-brush - Pima
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