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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
12018-03-16T21:13:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Volume Twelve Illustrations and Portfolio ImagesErik Loyer1Media Galleriesstructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:13:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Loitering at the spring1A group of Walpi and Hano girls in holiday attire. The background is a typical bit of Southwestern desert.plain2018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Buffalo dance at Hano1The Buffalo dance at the Upper Rio Grande pueblos was lately introduced among the Hopi, who attach no religious significance to it.plain2018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tewa girl1An excellent feminine type of these early immigrants from the Rio Grande. The arrangement of her hair suggests that she is unmarried.plain2018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Antelopes and snakes at Oraibi1The Antelope fraternity, at the right, and the Snake fraternity facing them at the left, engage in singing prior to handling the reptiles in the Snake dance. At the extreme right is the kisi, a cottonwood booth in which sits the custodian of the snake-jars, ready to hand out the reptiles one by one to the dancers.plain2018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Watching the dancers1A group of girls on the topmost roof of Walpi, looking down into the plaza.plain2018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hopi girl1Soft, regular features are characteristic of Hopi young women, and no small part of a mother's time is used to be devoted to dressing the hair of her unmarried daughters. The aboriginal style is rapidly being abandoned, and the native one-piece dress here illustrated is seldom seen even at the less advanced of the Hopi pueblos.plain2018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Evening in Hopi land1plain2018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Honovi - Walpi snake priest, with Totokya Day painting1This plate depicts the accoutrement of a Snake dancer on the day of the Antelope dance (see Volume XII, pages 146-149). The right hand grasps a pair of eagle-feathers - the "snake whip" - and the left a bag of ceremonial meal. Honovi was one of the author's principal informants.plain2018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637On the housetop1A typical village scene illustrating many features of pueblo architecture. At the extreme left is the entrance of an underground kiva, with the tips of the ladder projecting. In the central foreground is a baking-room, where piki is prepared, and to the left is an outdoor oven for baking loaf-bread.plain2018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Walpi1Picturesque Walpi, perched on the point of a rocky island in a sea of sand, is an irregular, rambling community-house, built without design, added to in haphazard fashion as need arose; yet it constitutes a perfectly satisfying artistic whole.plain2018-03-16T21:12:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Counting the record1A series of marks cut into the rock at Middle mesa records the losses inflicted on the marauding enemies in a former generation.plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637At the trysting place1plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637East side of Walpi1Few illustrations of Hopi architecture show as much regularity as this view of a Walpi street.plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Snake priest1The white markings, typifying the antelope, indicate that the subject is accoutred for the semi-final day of the Snake dance, when the public performance consists of the dance and the ceremonial race of the Antelope fraternity.plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Potter mixing clay1This woman, so aged that her shrivelled skin hangs in folds, still finds pleasure in creating artistic and utilitarian pieces of pottery.plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hopi man1In 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hopi architecture1The house-walls are about eighteen inches thick, and consist of fragments of sandstone, shaped by fracture but undressed, and bound together with mud plaster. The upper levels of the terraced buildings are reached by ladders and by stone steps.plain2018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Snake dancers entering the plaza1At the right stand the Antelopes, in front of the booth containing the snake-jars. The Snakes enter the plaza, encircle it four times with military tread, and then after a series of songs remarkable for their irresistible movement, they proceed to dance with the reptiles.plain2018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Primitive style of hairdressing1The arrangement imitates the squash-blossom and indicates virginity. Within the last decade it has become rare, except on ceremonial occasions.plain2018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Mishongnovi1A comprehensive view of this interesting Middle Mesa pueblo. On an eminence in the middle background is Shipaulovi, and at the right, several miles distant, is Shongopavi, on another tongue of the mesa.plain2018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Potter1Every visitor at East mesa knows Nampeyo, the potter of Hano, whose creations excel those of any rival. Stranger wander into her house, welcome though unbidden, but Nampeyo only works and smiles. In the plate her paint-stone occupies the central foreground.plain2018-03-16T21:12:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Modified style of hairdressing1plain2018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Walpi snake priest1This subject is Koyawaima ("gray [dawn] walking"), who has been chief of the fraternity since 1899.plain2018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Snake dancer in costume1plain2018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Flute dancers at Tureva Spring1The Flute dance is a religious ceremony concerned with bringing rain. It represents the legendary arrival of the Flute people in the Hopi country, their friendly encounter with the clans already there, and the rain-making rites subsequently performed by them for the common good. The episode here represented was photographed at Middle mesa. The individual seated near the right end is an albino, not a white man.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Piki maker1Piki is cornbread baked in colored sheets of paper-like thinness. The batter is spread on the baking stone with the bare hand, and the quickly baked sheet is folded and laid on the basket at the baker's left.plain2018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Depositing a prayer-stick1Round, painted sticks with feathers attached by cotton cords are deposited in various places, particularly in springs and at shrines, in supplication to the spirits associated with the locality.plain2018-03-16T21:12:16-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
