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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
Contributing Archives
Information on how to participate in Performing Archive
Browsing the Media
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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Blackfoot cookery
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Blackfoot country
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Since the beginning of the historical period the Blackfeet have ranged the prairies along Bow river, while their allies, the Bloods and Piegan, were respectively on Belly and Old Man rivers. In the earliest times of which their traditionists have knowledge the three tribes were respectively on Saskatchewan, Red Deer, and Bow rivers.
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A Blackfoot travois
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The travois is still used for transporting bundles of ceremonial objects. Before, and sometimes even long after, the acquisition of horses, travoix were drawn by dogs.
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Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot
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By long usage the term "medicine" in the sense of supernatural has become firmly fixed in the literature of American Indians, and especially the plains tribes. A head-dress of the sort here depicted consists of some part of the body, sometimes the entire skin, of the creature that appeared as a spirit in a dream of the wearer and instructed him how to have its help, especially in war.
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Oksoyapiw - Blackfoot
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Bear Bull - Blackfoot
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The plate illustrates an ancient Blackfoot method of arranging the hair.
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Calf Child - Blackfoot
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Fleshing a hide - Blackfoot
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The implement for removing flesh and fat from hides is a long-bone with a beveled scraping edge. The thong attached to the upper end and passing about the woman's wrist is for the purpose of giving additional leverage.
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Bow River - Blackfoot
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Cheyenne chief
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The Cheyenne belong to the Algonquian linguistic family and therefore are related to the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and to the Arapaho of the north, and, much more remotely, to many of the tribes that once lives along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Midwest. They are now divided into the Northern Cheyenne, living in Montana, and the Southern Cheyenne who were assigned a reservation in the present Oklahoma in 1867.
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A Blackfoot
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A travois - Blackfoot
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A typical Blackfoot
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A Blackfoot soldier
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Blackfoot finery
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A Blackfoot woman
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Blackfoot cookery
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Modern Blackfoot burial
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Bow River and the sandhills - Blackfoot
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In a Blackfoot camp
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A medicine-bag - Blackfoot
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Transporting the ceremonial bag and tipi-cover of a Blackfoot society
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A beaver-bundle - Blackfoot
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A Blackfoot ceremonial bag
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Fat horse, with insignia of a Blackfoot soldier
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Blackfoot war-bonnet
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A Blackfoot tipi
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Vanishing Race Gallery
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Selected images relating to the "vanishing race" theme; by Ulia Gosart
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Primitive Apache home
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Hunts To Die - Apsaroke
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Hunts The Enemy - Apsaroke
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Tuvahe - Jemez
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For strength and visions
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Makoyepuk - "Wolf-child"
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Cowichan warrior
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Apache medicine-man
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The eagle medicine-man - Apsaroke
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Nature's mirror - Navaho
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Shuati - Sia
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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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Masked dancers in canoes - Qagyuhl, B
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Niukskai-Stamik - "Three Bulls"
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Naemahlpunkuma - Hahuamis
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Carved posts at Alert Bay
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These two heraldic columns at the Nimkish village Yilis, on Cormorant island represent the owner's paternal crest, an eagle, and his maternal crest, a grizzly-bear crushing the head of a rival chief. On the subject of crests and totem poles, see Volume X, page 140, and illustrations facing pages 8,10,18,20,24,26,34,138,140,174,176, and folio plates 341,350,353.
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Vol. 18 Illustrations
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