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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
12018-03-16T21:13:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Volume One Illustrations and Portfolio ImagesErik Loyer1Media Galleriesstructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:13:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12018-03-16T21:11:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Vanishing race - Navaho1The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn in their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so much of the thought that inspired the entire work, the author has chosen it as the first of the series.plain2018-03-16T21:11:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Geronimo - Apache1This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at the time seventy-six years of age, thus making the year of his birth 1829. The picture was taken at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the day before the inauguration of President Roosevelt, Geronimo being one of the warriors who took part in the inaugural parade at Washington. He appreciated the honor of being one of those chosen for this occasion, and the catching of his features while the old warrior was in a retrospective mood was most fortunate.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Desert rovers - Apache1The White Mountain Apache and the desert portion of their country. The picture was made on a gray day of early spring, when the Apache wear blankets as protection against the keen air of their mountain home.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Apache-land1Apache horsewomen in a small valley of the White Mountain region. The horses are laden with the complete camp equipage, on top of which the women have taken their seats.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Alchise - Apache1Chief of the White Mountain Apache. A well-known character, having been a scout with General Crook. Colonel Cooley, who was chief of scouts under Crook, says a braver man than Alchise never lived. He was about twenty-two when Fort Apache, then Camp Ord, was established in 1870, making the year of his birth about 1848. This portrait was made at Alchise's camp on White river in the spring of 1903.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Sigesh - Apache1This illustrates the girls' method of tying the hair previous to marriage. The ornament fastened to the hair in the back is made of leather, broad and round at the ends and narrow in the middle.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Apache1This picture might be titled "Life Primeval." It is the Apache as we would mentally picture him in the time of the Stone Age. It was made at a spot on Black river, Arizona, where the dark, still pool breaks into the laugh of a rapids.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Apache reaper1Here the Apache woman is seen in her small wheatfield harvesting the grain with a hand sickle, the method now common to all Indians of the Southwest.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Storm - Apache1A scene in the high mountains of Apache-land just before the breaking rainstorm.plain2018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Getting water - Apache1A picture made in early spring on the banks of White river, Arizona. The water bottle is the typical Apache one of basketry covered with pinon gum.plain2018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Story-telling - Apache1A story-telling group, particularly typical of these people. The Apache often sit about and exchange stories of the past or of to-day.plain2018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Renegade type - Apache1No picture could better show the old renegade type of the Apache than this one of Genitoa. It is the type of Indian who has yielded to the inevitable and lives in peace - not because he prefers it, but because he must.plain2018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Scout - Apache1The primitive Apache in his mountain home.plain2018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Morning bath - Apache1The Apache, old and young alike, are particularly fond of bathing, and make the most of every opportunity to have a swim. They call it "a swim" regardless of how shallow the water may be, just so long as they can wash their bodies.plain2018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Apache Nalin1An Apache girl about fourteen years of age.plain2018-03-16T21:07:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:01-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Eskadi - Apache1A headman for one of the bands, and a particularly fine Apache type.plain2018-03-16T21:07:01-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:01-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Apache babe1A fortunate child picture, giving a good idea of the happy disposition of Indian children, and at the same time showing the baby carrier or holder.plain2018-03-16T21:07:01-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Chief Garfield - Jicarilla1Some years ago the Jicarillas were all officially given Spanish or English names. Many of them expressed a preference. This old man, who was head-chief of the tribe at the time, selected the designation Garfield.plain2018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Jicarilla maiden1This pictures exceedingly well the typical Jicarilla women's dress: a cape of deerskin, beaded, a broad belt of black leather, a deerskin skirt, and the hair fastened at each side of the head with a large knot of yarn or cloth.plain2018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Jicarilla women1Women watching the races on their annual ceremonial or feast day. It will be observed that they are all dressed uniformly in garments cut after the primitive mode.plain2018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Chief of the desert - Navaho1Picturing not only the individual but a characteristic member of the tribe - disdainful, energetic, self-reliant.plain2018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Women of the desert - Navaho1The Navaho women are, for the greater part, the owners of the flocks and invariably, with the children, the herders. They are so thoroughly at home on their scrubby ponies that they seem a part of them and probably excel all other Indians as horsewomen.plain2018-03-16T21:11:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:04-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cañon de Chelly - Navaho1A wonderfully scenic spot is this in northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navaho country - one of their strongholds, in fact. Cañon de Chelly exhibits evidences of having been occupied by a considerable number of people in former times, as in every niche at every side are seen the cliff-perched ruins of former villages.plain2018-03-16T21:11:04-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cañon del Muerto - Navaho1New Southwest.plain2018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637At the shrine - Navaho1Scattered about the Navaho reservation are many cairn shrines. The Navaho, when alone or in parties, on approaching one of these gathers a few twigs of piñon or cedar, places them on the shrine, scatters a pinch of sacred meal upon it, and makes supplication for that which he may habitually need or which the moment demands.plain2018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho1A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Cañon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied - one in Cañon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant.plain2018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Son of the desert - Navaho1In the early morning this boy, as if springing from the earth itself, came to the author's desert camp. Indeed, he seemed a part of the very desert. His eyes bespeak all of the curiosity, all of the wonder of his primitive mind striving to grasp the meaning of the strange things about him.plain2018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Navaho flocks1The Navaho might as well be called the "Keepers of Flocks". Their sheep are of the greatest importance to their existence, and in the care and management of their flocks they exhibit a thrift not to be found in the average tribe.plain2018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Blanket weaver - Navaho1The Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogans, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as in this case, beneath a tree. The simplicity of the loom and its product are here clearly shown, pictured in the early morning light under a large cottonwood.plain2018-03-16T21:11:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Point of interest - Navaho1plain2018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Out of the darkness - Navaho1In Tesakod cañon, a small branch of Cañon de Chelly. At the point where this picture was made the gorge is very narrow.plain2018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Sunset in Navaho-land1plain2018-03-16T21:11:19-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Alhkidokihi - Navaho1One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.plain2018-03-16T21:11:05-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
