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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
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David J. Kim
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Heather Blackmore
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Ulia Gosart (Popova)
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Dancing into the medicine-lodge - Arikara
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Arikara
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Bear's Belly - Arikara
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A member of the medicine fraternity, wrapped in his sacred bear-skin. A biographical sketch of this subject is given in Volume V, page 178.
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Four Horns - Arikara
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A biographical sketch of this subject appears in Volume V, page 179.
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White Shield - Arikara
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A mixed-blood member of the medicine fraternity.
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Sitting Bear - Arikara
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A biographical sketch of this subject will be found in Volume V, page 180.
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Bear's Teeth - Arikara
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A member of the Night order of the medicine fraternity.
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Little Sioux - Arikara
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Bull Neck - Arikara
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A member of the Buffalo order of the medicine fraternity. Bull Neck is portrayed wearing his head-dress of buffalo horns and hide. A biographical sketch is given in Volume V, page 178.
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Arikara medicine fraternity
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In this group are shown the principal participants in the reenactment of the Arikara medicine ceremony, which was given for the author's observation and study in July, 1908.
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Arikara medicine ceremony - Dance of the fraternity
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After each order has performed its dance about the sacred cedar, the entire fraternity, group by group, emerges from the lodge and dances.
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Announcement - Arikara
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Among the Missouri River Indians of the earthen lodges - the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara - the chiefs and priests made their announcements from the housetops. This picture is of Bear's Teeth standing on the roof of the ceremonial lodge in which occurred the medicine ceremony described in Volume V, pages 70-76.
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Rush gatherer - Arikara
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The Arikaras, as well as their close neighbors, the Mandan and Hidatsa, made many mats of rushes. These were used largely as floor coverings.
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Arikara medicine ceremony - The Bears
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After dancing around the sacred cedar, the members of the Bear order halt and complete their songs before reentering the medicine-lodge.
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Arikara medicine ceremony - Dance of the black-tail deer
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The two dark figures are painted in a manner suggesting the elk, the others the antelope.
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Arikara medicine ceremony - The Ducks
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Three members of the medicine fraternity, painted to represent ducks and holding the rushes among which waterfowl rest, in their dance around the sacred cedar.
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Arikara medicine fraternity - The prayer
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This impressive picture from the Arikara medicine ceremony shows the priests in a semi-circle about the sacred cedar.
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Arikara girl
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A type produced by several generations of tribal and racial intermarriage. The subject is considered by her tribesmen to be a pure Arikara, but her features point unmistakably to a white ancestor, and there is little doubt that the blood of other tribes than the one which claims her flows in her veins.
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Arikara chief
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The tribal chief, Sitting Bear, is portrayed in full costume of scalp-shirt, leggings, and moccasins, all of deerskin, and eagle-feather war-bonnet and coup-stick.
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In the medicine-lodge - Arikara
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Arikara maiden
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Ground plan of Arikara medicine-lodge
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Arikara medicine-lodge
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The altar - Arikara
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Contents of Arikara tribal medicine bundle
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Arikara corn ceremony : bearing out the osiers
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Arikara medicine ceremony : The bears
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Medicine bundles - Arikara
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Arikara medicine ceremony : Bear, buffalo, and night men
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Arikara medicine ceremony : The buffalo
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Bringing in the cedar - Arikara
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Blessing the children - Arikara
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Arikara medicine ceremony : Night men dancing
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The bear emerges - Arikara
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Arikara medicine ceremony : The buffalo dancing
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The brush-gatherers - Arikara
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The buffalo-medicine - Arikara
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The bear-medicine - Arikara
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Prayer to the cedar - Arikara
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Rattles of Arikara bear medicine-men
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Keeper of a medicine bundle - Arikara
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Arikara woman
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Arikara summer home
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Camp gossips - Arikara
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Singing to the cedar - Arikara
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Red Star - Arikara
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Crow Ghost - Arikara
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Vol. 5 Illustrations
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