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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
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A Coast Pomo
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Vol. 14 Illustrations
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Painting on Deerskin
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Painting on brain tanned deerskin. The skin is an off white/grayish color. The paintings on the skin are yellow, brown, white, blue, green, black, orange and red. Various figures are painted on the skin which include, moons, equal sided crosses or "x", 3 anthropomorphic figures, one human head, a bird, and circles. There is a zig zag design the goes around the perimeter of the skin. There is a 1 cm wide hole in the skin in the lower left quadrant. The edges of the skin are fairly straight and smooth, indicating it was cut/trimmed to a roughly rectangular shape. The hide painting appears to be the same one illustrated in "Sacred buckskin - Apache", plate facing page 31, in The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.01, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1907. See pp. 29-35 for explanatory text, where it is identified as a medicine skin formerly owned by Navajo medicine man Hashke Nilnte, and acquired by Curtis from Hashke Nilnte's wife. The symbolism is then outlined in detail in the publication.View this plate online here: http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.01.book.00000074.p&volume=1#nav .
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Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
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The Pomo formerly occupied about half the area of Mendocino, Sonoma, and Lake counties, besides a small isolated territory in Glenn and Colusa. The survivors are found in greatest number in the vicinity of the town of Ukiah. This name, though it is applied to the original portrait as a nickname, is a word of Pomo origin, from yo, south, and kaia, valley.
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Hunter - Lake Pomo
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The scene is Clear lake. The abundant tules along its shallows formerly supplied the natives with material for house-coverings, mats, garments, and balsas, and sheltered teeming flocks of waterfowl.
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Burden-basket - Pomo
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With her basket supported bya tump-line passing across her head, and with seed-beater in hand, this capable matron is ready for a day in the fields harvesting wild seeds, which she will parch and crush into a nutritious and appetizing meal known by the Mexican name pinole.
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Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
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Shatila - Pomo
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Summer camp - Lake Pomo
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Except that it was larger and rather more substantial, the winter house of the Lake Pomo was identical with its tule-covered framework of willow poles.
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Wild grapes - Pomo
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Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
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The round-stem tule, Scirpus lacustris, was used principally for thatching houses, for making mats by stringing them laterally on parallel cords, and, securely lashed together in long bundles, in the construction of serviceable and quickly made canoes.
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Pomo girl
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Clam-shell beads of the kind here shown are still made by some of the old men. Fragments of shell are pierced and strung on a stem of the scouring-rush (Equisetum), which is then drawn backward and forward on a flat surface of sandstone until the fragments have become nearly circular. The feathered ornament is an ear-pendant, which in this case, because of its length and weight, is attached to a strand of hair. The large, dark-colored bead on one strand of the necklace is a cylinder of magnesite, a highly valued object
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Coast Pomo woman
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Pomo seed-gathering utensils
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The group includes a tight-mesh burden-basket for seeds, an open-mesh burden-basket for acorns and other nuts, two winnowing trays, and a seed-beater with which the seeds are brushed from the plant into the burden-basket.
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Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle
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Coast Pomo girl
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Fishing camp - Lake Pomo
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Large quantities of species locally called black-fish are still taken annually by the Lake Pomo. The fish are split down the back, and after the removal of backbone, head, and entrails, are hung on pole racks to dry in the sun for about two weeks, after which they are thoroughly cured in smoke-houses. Tule huts are not now seen, the one here shown having been built especially for the occasion.
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Aged Pomo woman
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Canoe of tules - Pomo
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In an emergency a craft even more simple than this was made by fashioning a long bundle of tules, which the boatman rode astride with his legs in the water.
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Construction of a tule shelter - Lake Pomo
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Sherwood Valley girl - Pomo
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A mixed-blood Coast Pomo
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A Coast Pomo man
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Koshonono - Pomo
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An eastern Pomo
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A Pomo camp
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A Pomo girl
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A Coast Pomo
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Eastern Pomo woman
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In the tule swamp - Lake Pomo
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Pomo baskets
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Pomo baskets and magnesite beads
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Cooking acorns - Lake Pomo
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Conception rock near Ukiah - Pomo
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Basket used in puberty rites - Pomo
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Pomo dance costume
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A summer camp - Lake Pomo
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On Russian River - Pomo
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Summer shelter - Lake Pomo
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Coast Pomo with feather head-dress
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Coast Pomo bridal costume
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Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
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Gathering seeds - Coast Pomo
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Camp under the oaks - Lake Pomo
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Pomo mother and child
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