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Performing ArchiveMain MenuVisualizing the “Vanishing Race”: the photogravures of Edward S. CurtisFront Page for Visualizing the "Vanishing Race" pathCurtis' 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 lifeMedia, Technology and MediationsCurtis's Technology, Relationships to Media and StyleContextualizing Curtis, The North American Indian, and Racethe collection of essays from the contributorsConsulting with Tribes as Part of Archive DevelopmentIntroduction to Consulting with Tribes by Ulia GosartContributing ArchivesInformation on how to participate in Performing ArchiveBrowsing the MediaA path of paths that allow users to cut through the collection in a variety of ways.Acknowledgements and Project InformationProject NetworkJacqueline Wernimontbce78f60db1628727fc0b905ad2512506798cac8David J. Kim18723eee6e5a79c8d8823c02b7b02cb2319ee0f1Stephan Schonberg23744229577bdc62e9a8c09d3492541be754e1efAmy Borsukc533a79d33d48cbf428e1160c2edc0b38c50db19Beatrice Schustera02047525b31e94c1336b01e99d7f4f758870500Heather Blackmored0a2bf9f2053b3c0505d20108092251fc75010bfUlia Gosart (Popova)67c984897e6357dbeeac6a13141c0defe5ef3403
12018-03-16T21:13:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tribe PathsErik Loyer1Explore the Media by Tribestructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:13:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12018-03-16T21:06:29-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Basketry Bowl1Coiled basket; no pigment visible. Several areas of loss throughout, particularly around rim and base. Typed note inside vessel says: "18. Basketry Container. Tribe: Pima - Arizona. Design: utility basket w/no decorative design; made of bundled wheat straw and wound with mesquite bark. Size: 3 5/8" h., x 11" dia. Circa: 1900?? Condition..."plain2018-03-16T21:06:29-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Saguaro harvest - Pima1The fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, called "hasen" by the Pima, forms a very important source of the food supply of the tribes of southern Arizona. This fruit is of about the size of a small pear, and is very sweet. It is eaten fresh, dried, or in the form of syrup, and a sort of wine is made from its juice. In gathering it the natives use a long pole with a wooden blade at the end.plain2018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Pima baskets1The baskets made by the Pima, Papago, and Qahatika, as well as by their Maricopa neighbors, are practically identical in form and design, but the Maricopa basketry is of somewhat superior workmanship. The four-armed cross, a form of the swastika, appears as the central feature in the decoration of a majority of the Piman and Maricopa baskets of to-day, and while the true signification here is not known with certainty, it is not impossible that it was designed originally to represent the winds of the four cardinal directions. Less than a generation ago the swastika was employed by the Pima to decorate their shields, and as a brand for their horses.plain2018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Kaviu - Pima1The Pima are bright, active, progressive Indians, as the portrait of the typical man of the tribe attests.plain2018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Burden-bearer - Pima1This illustration shows the typical burden basket of the several Piman tribes of southern Arizona, called kiho in the Piman language. Their mythology relates that once the kiho was an animate being, but owing to disobedience of divine laws when the people emerged from the under-world, it became inanimate, and has since been carried on the backs of women.plain2018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Pima woman1This pictures gives also an idea of the size attained by the giant cactus, or saguaro.plain2018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Pima ki1The old-time round dwelling of the Pima tribes. In construction it was much the same as the earth lodge of the tribes of the northern plains, the chief difference lying in the fact that its top is practically flat and it is not provided with an opening for the escape of the smoke, as well as in the lack of an extended or built-out entrance way. The ki was usually about 15 feet in diameter. As the winter climate of southern Arizona is very mild, only a small fire was needed to keep the ki warm in even the coldest weather, the smoke from which became absorbed in part by the earthen roof, or escaped through the doorway.plain2018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Pima matron1A representative Pima woman of middle age.plain2018-03-16T21:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Chijako - Pima1A representative Pima man of middle age.plain2018-03-16T21:11:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Papago girl1A particularly fine-looking Papago girl of as nearly pure blood as can be found in the region. The northern Piman tribes have been in direct contact with Spanish people for more than two centuries. Much of the early foreign blood, however, has become so blended that its physical influence is no longer apparent. Indeed there are many instances in which the Indians insist that their blood is entirely aboriginal, whereas in fact an infusion of alien blood is traceable several generations back.plain2018-03-16T21:11:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Gathering hanamh - Papago1Hanamh is the Piman name for the cholla cactus and its fruit. The natives gather the fruit of this spiny plant in large quantities, and it forms a food of material importance to the several tribes living within its habitat. In gathering it they use rude tongs made from a split stick. After a basket is filled, the fruit is spread on the ground and bushed about with a small, stiff besom until the spines are worn off, or the spines are burned of in an open fire.plain2018-03-16T21:11:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Saguaro fruit-gatherers - Maricopa1Like their Piman neighbors, the Maricopa gather large quantities of the fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, which they relish in its natural state as well as in the form of wine or preserve.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
