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Coast Pomo with feather head-dress

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Vol. 14 Illustrations Erik Loyer
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Pomo Erik Loyer
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1. Painting on Deerskin 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 .
2. Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
3. Hunter - Lake Pomo
4. Burden-basket - Pomo
5. Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
6. Shatila - Pomo
7. Summer camp - Lake Pomo
8. Wild grapes - Pomo
9. Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
10. Pomo girl 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
11. Coast Pomo woman
12. Pomo seed-gathering utensils
13. Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle
14. Coast Pomo girl
15. Fishing camp - Lake Pomo
16. Aged Pomo woman
17. Canoe of tules - Pomo
18. Construction of a tule shelter - Lake Pomo
19. Sherwood Valley girl - Pomo
20. A mixed-blood Coast Pomo
21. A Coast Pomo man
22. Koshonono - Pomo
23. An eastern Pomo
24. A Pomo camp
25. A Pomo girl
26. A Coast Pomo
27. Eastern Pomo woman
28. In the tule swamp - Lake Pomo
29. Pomo baskets
30. Pomo baskets and magnesite beads
31. Cooking acorns - Lake Pomo
32. Conception rock near Ukiah - Pomo
33. Basket used in puberty rites - Pomo
34. Pomo dance costume
35. A summer camp - Lake Pomo
36. On Russian River - Pomo
37. Summer shelter - Lake Pomo
38. Coast Pomo with feather head-dress
39. Coast Pomo bridal costume
40. Gathering tules - Lake Pomo
41. Gathering seeds - Coast Pomo
42. Camp under the oaks - Lake Pomo
43. Pomo mother and child