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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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A path of paths that allow users to cut through the collection in a variety of ways.
Acknowledgements and Project Information
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Jacqueline Wernimont
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David J. Kim
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Stephan Schonberg
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Amy Borsuk
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Beatrice Schuster
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Heather Blackmore
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Ulia Gosart (Popova)
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Dancing Mask - Nootka
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"Mask"
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Masked dancer - Cowichan
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The dancer personates one of the mythic ancestors who descended from the sky. Note the huge, carved house-post at the right.
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Kotsuis and Hohhuq - Nakoaktok
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These two masked performers in the winter dance represent huge, mythical birds. Kotsuis (the Nakoaktok equivalent of the Qagyuhl Kaloqutsuis) and Hohhuq are servitors in the house of the man-eating monster Pahpaqalanohsiwi. See page 160. The mandibles of these tremendous wooden masks are controlled by strings.
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Coming for the bride
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In the bow qunhulahl, a masked man personating the thunderbird, dances with characteristic gestures as the canoe approaches the bride's village.
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Masked dancers in canoes - Qagyhl, A
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Visitors approaching a village where the winter dance is in progress sometimes array themselves in their ceremonial costumes, and dance while the canoes slowly move shoreward. From left to right the dancers represent respectively Wasp, Thunderbird, and Grizzly-bear.
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Masked dancers - Qagyuhl
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The plate shows a group of masked and costumed performers in the winter ceremony. The chief who is holding the dance stands at the left, grasping a speaker's staff and wearing cedar-bark neck-ring and head-band and a few of the spectators are visible at the right. At the extreme left is seen a part of the painted mawihl through which the dancers emerge from the secret room; and in the centre, between the carved house-posts, is the Awaitlala hams'pek, showing three of the five mouths through which the hamatsa wriggle from the top to the bottom of the column. See page 175 and footnote.
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Masked dancers in canoes - Qagyuhl, B
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Haida of Massett
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The head-dress is a "dancing hat," and consists of a carved wooden mask surmounted by numerous sea-lion bristles and with many pendent strips of ermine-skin.
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Hopi man
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In this physiognomy we read the dominant traits of Hopi character. The eyes speak of wariness, if not downright distrust. The mouth shows great possibilities of unyielding stubbornness. Yet somewhere in this face lurks an expression of masked warmheartedness and humanity.
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Sia buffalo mask
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A Cowichan mask
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Masked dancer - Cowichan
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A Tluwulahu mask - Tswatenok
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Mask of octopus hunter - Qagyuhl
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Dancing Mask - Nootka
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Tyo'oni Shiwanna mask - Cochita
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Native drawings of Santo Domingo masks
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Native conception of a kopishtaia with mask and tablita - Acoma
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Ceremonial mask, Nunivak
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Maskette, Nunivak
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Nootka
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Basketry storage container
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Woven basket with some external vertical elements colored red, purple (?) blue/black (?) and green. Several areas of loss, particularly around the rim and rim is deformed. Typed note inside basket says: "24. Storage Basketry Container. Tribe: Nootka-Makah Vancouver Island, B.C. and Northwest Washington State. Design: red-green-blue-black-purple stripes woven on a natural ground; of plain plaited cedar bark. Size: 6 1/2 h." 13"x10" sq. Circa: 1915. Condition: v. poor."
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On the shores at Nootka
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Two women wearing the primitive bark blanket and nose-ornament, and with clam-baskets on their backs, rest on the beach while waiting for the tide to fall and uncover the clam-beds.
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Hesquiat root digger
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Nootka women very commonly wore bark cape folded over the head, to protect the forehead from the tump-line, when carrying the burden-basket. The proper use of the cape was to shed rain.
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Nootka method of spearing
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The harpoon for seals, porpoises, and salmon is double-headed, so that if the point on the main shaft glances off, the other may perhaps lodge in the hunter's prey.
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Oldest man of Nootka
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This individual is the most primitive relic in the modernized village of Nootka. Stark naked, he may be seen hobbling about the beach or squatting in the sun, living in thought in the golden age when the social and ceremonial customs of his people were what they had always been.
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Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
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At Nootka
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The canoe is floating on the waters of Boston cove, where in 1803 the trading ship Boston was taken and burned by the Mooachaht Indians, and the entire crew killed except John Jewitt and John Thompson, who were held as slaves by the chief for three years. Jewitt's brief account of his captivity is one of our most interesting records of life among the Indians.
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Haiyahl - Nootka
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A Nootka woman in profile, with a shell nose-ring and fur-edged bark blanket.
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Shores of Nootka Sound
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This plate conveys an excellent impression of the character of much of the Vancouver Island coast, with its rugged, tide-washed rocks, thickly timbered lowland, and lofty mountains in the distance.
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It is commonly believed that the facial hair of many North Coast natives is proof of intermingled Caucasian blood; but that such is not the case is conclusively proved by the statement of Captain Cook, who in 1778 observed that "some of them, and particularly the old men, have not only considerable beards all over the chin, but whiskers and mustachios."
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A Nootka belle
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The lake at Nootka
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The shores of the Nootka
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By the sea - Nootka
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Dancing Mask - Nootka
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The bear costume - Nootka
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A woman of Nootka
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Vol. 11 Illustrations
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