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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
Media, Technology and Mediations
Curtis's Technology, Relationships to Media and Style
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the collection of essays from the contributors
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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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Cree tipis
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Planning a raid
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The Indians, in their striking and characteristic costumes, unconsciously form themselves into most picturesque groups. This shows a party of Ogalala Sioux on a hill overlooking the valley of Wounded Knee creek, on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
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Going to camp - Apsaroke
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This picture was made at a small winter camp on Pryor creek in the Pryor mountains, Montana.
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Passing the cliff - Apsaroke
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A winter scene on Pryor Creek, Montana.
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Serrano woman of Tejon
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The Serranos (Spanish, "mountaineers"), a Shoshonean branch comprising numerous local groups, occupied San Bernardino valley, San Bernardino mountains north of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, a portion of Mojave desert north of that range and east of Mojave river, and Tehachapi mountains. This last group, who lived principally on El Paso and Tejon creeks, were the Kitanemuk. In 1853 most of the resident Indians, including not only various Shoshoneans but many Yokuts, were taken to Tule river reservation. Tejon rancheria remains, however, a settlement of various Shoshoneans, but predominantly Kitanemuk
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North pueblo at Taos
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Taos consists of two house-masses separated by Pueblo creek. The entire site was formerly surrounded by a protective wall, remains of which are still in place. The north structure is called Hlauoma ("cold elevated"), referring to its situation (north being regarded as up, and south as down). The other is Hlauqima (cold diminish").
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A Chipewyan tipi among the aspens
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The Chipewyan are one of several Athapascan groups occupying the territory between the Hudson bay and the Rocky mountains, from about the fifty-seventh parallel to the Arctic circle. Much of this area is barren, but the streams that feed and drain the innumerable lakes are bordered by thick groves of the slender, white boles of aspens, whose pleasant glades are favored by camps of fishermen and berrypickers. The Chipewyan dwelling, formerly made of the skins of caribou, on which animal these people principally depended for food, clothing, and shelter, was one of the few points in which their culture resembled that of the plains Indians. Their distinctive garment was a leather or fur coat with skirts cut to a point before and behind, a feature to which the appellation Wichipwayaniwuk ("they pointed fur people"), the Cree original of Chipewyan, alluded.
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A Cree canoe on Lac Les Isles
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The Western Woods Cree, Bush Cree, Swampy Cree, or Maskegon, as they are variously known, are scattered in numerous bands through the wooded country north of the prairies between Hudson bay and the Peace river drainage. Other members of this large family inhabit the plains in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and the country from Lake Winnipeg to Lakes Mistassini and Nitchequon in the Province of Quebec. They are members of the great Algonquian stock, and are closely related to the Chippewa. Lac les Isles, locally known as Big Island lake, is in west-central Saskatchewan, near the Alberta border. The canoe is a well-made craft of birch-bark.
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A Cree girl
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The garment here illustrated is a robe of twined strips of rabbit-fur.
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Moose hunter - Cree
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Cree hunters are masters of their art of imitating, by means of a birch-bark trumpet, the call of a moose of either sex, and thus luring within gunshot an animal seeking a mate during the rutting season.
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Moss for the baby-bags - Cree
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In moist localities of the northern bush country the ground is thickly carpeted with Sphagnum. The moss is dried on racks, and is used as an absorbent in the tightly laced bags of infants.
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A Cree
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Of variously widely differing types noted among the Cree at Lac les Iles, the subject of this plate and that of the following one were perhaps best representative of Cree physiognomy.
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A Cree woman
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A Cree camp at Lac les Isles
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A family group consisting of two middle-aged women, a young mother, and several children, camped at the lake while the rest of the band were haying in a swampy meadow some miles inland. They engaged in fishing with a gill-net and in gathering blueberries. In point of sanitation their tipi and their cooking methods left much to be desired.
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On Nespilim creek
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Calling a moose - Cree
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Picking blueberries - Cree
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Isqe-sis ("Woman Small") and chile - Cree
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A Cree camp
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Landing - Cree
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Birchbark baskets - Cree
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Frame of the sponsor's tipi, Cree sun-dance
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Vol. 18 Illustrations
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