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Visualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis
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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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Native conception of a kopishtaia with mask and tablita - Acoma
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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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Ceremonial mask, Nunivak
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Maskette, Nunivak
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Acoma
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A morning chat - Acoma
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Among the rocks - Acoma
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Fiesta of San Estevan, A - Acoma
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Fiesta of San Estevan, B - Acoma
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Procession of San Estevan, A - Acoma
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Procession of San Estevan, B - Acoma
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Depositing San Estevan in the booth - Acoma
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Acoma belfry
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With the possible exception of Sia, Acoma possesses the oldest church among the pueblos. Its bell is dated 1710, but the massive structure may have been erected as early as 1699. (See Volume XVI, pages 170-171.)
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At the gateway - Acoma
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Acoma from the south
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The large building in the centre is the church, and the walls of the cemetery are visible at its right. In the distance is the vague outline of Mount Taylor.
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Feast day at Acoma
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Franciscan missionaries early in the seventeenth century introduced certain public Christian rites among the Pueblos, which ever since have been performed, with an intermingling of native ceremonial practices, especially on the days of the saints of whose protection the villages were respectively assigned. The day of San Estevan, patron saint of Acoma, is September second.
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Old trail at Acoma
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This is doubtless the trail built under the supervision of Fray Juan Ramirez, who established himself at Acoma in 1629 and subsequently built a church and a trail which horses could ascend.
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At the old well of Acoma
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Members of Coronado's army of explorers in 1540 and espejo in 1583 noted the "cisterns to collect snow and water" on the rock of Acoma.
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Inscription rock
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Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.
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The Acoma and the enchanted mesa
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Cliff-perched Acoma
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Crumbling walls of the old church - Acoma
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Acoma from the churchtop
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Church and cemetery - Acoma
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Mission and church at Acoma
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Laguna cooking-pot and Acoma water-jars
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Vol. 16 Illustrations
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