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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
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eighteen
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12018-03-16T21:11:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Chipewyan tipi among the aspens1The 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.plain2018-03-16T21:11:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tsaaassi-mis-salla1The name, colloquially rendered as Crow Collar, refers to a neck-ornament of crow-feathers.plain2018-03-16T21:12:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Titishu-kghitluhl ("Deer Running") - Sarsi1The Sarsi are an Athapascan tribe which prior to the nineteenth century came out of the far north, crossed the Saskatchewan, and becoming affiliated with the Algonquian confederacy of the Bloods, Blackfeet, and Piegan, became typical plainsmen, following the buffalo, engaging in horse-stealing raids, and in general adopting the religious practices of their allies. Old Sarsi, as the subject of this plate is colloquially known, was ninety-eight years of age when the photograph was made in 1925. In spite of his years, he was still agile and keen.plain2018-03-16T21:12:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Muwu1The childhood nickname, His Tooth, completely supplanted the formally bestowed Star Child.plain2018-03-16T21:12:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Sarsi camp1The scene is a riverside grove near Okotoks, Alberta, where a band of Sarsi were awaiting clement weather to begin the prosaic labor of shocking wheat for one of their Caucasian neighbors.plain2018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Cree canoe on Lac Les Isles1The 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Cree girl1The garment here illustrated is a robe of twined strips of rabbit-fur.plain2018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Moose hunter - Cree1Cree 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Moss for the baby-bags - Cree1In 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Cree1Of 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Cree camp at Lac les Isles1A 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Chief Hector - Assiniboin1The Assiniboin are an offshoot of the Yanktonai Sioux, from whom they separated prior to 1640. The southern branch has long been confined on a reservation in Montana, the northern is resident in Alberta. The latter is divided into two bands, which formerly ranged respectively north and south of Bow river, from the Rocky mountains out upon the prairies. Hector is chief of the southern band of the Canadian branch known locally as Bear's Paw band.plain2018-03-16T21:12:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Kindling fire - Assiniboin1The fire-drill is unknown to the oldest Assiniboin traditionists, but striking fire from flint was apparently as aboriginal method.plain2018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Assiniboin mother and child1plain2018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Painted tipi - Assiniboin1A tipi painted with figurines commemorative of a dream experienced by its owner is a venerated object. Its occupants enjoy good fortune, and there is no difficulty in finding a purchaser when after a few years the owner, according to custom, decides to dispose of it.plain2018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Placating the spirit of a slain eagle - Assiniboin1For their feathers, which were used in many ways as ornaments and as fetishes, eagles were caught by a hunter concealed in a brush-covered pit. A rather elaborate ceremony took place over the bodies of the slain birds for the purpose of placating the eagle spirits. The Sarsi custom is described at some length in Volume XVIII, pages 95-99.plain2018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Blackfoot country1Since 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.plain2018-03-16T21:07:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Blackfoot travois1The 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.plain2018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Medicine-headdress - Blackfoot1By 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.plain2018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:58-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Bear Bull - Blackfoot1The plate illustrates an ancient Blackfoot method of arranging the hair.plain2018-03-16T21:06:58-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Fleshing a hide - Blackfoot1The 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.plain2018-03-16T21:07:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Bow River - Blackfoot1plain2018-03-16T21:07:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Lodge of the Horn Society - Blood1The Horn society is the custodian of a cult about which the natives are loath to give details. It stands apart from the system of age-societies, which though partly religious in character were more concerned with warfare and the preservation of order in camp. Numerous taboos apply to the conduct of Horn members, and there are sexual rites in which the wife of a novice and his sponsor participate.plain2018-03-16T21:12:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Sacred bags of the Horn Society - Blood1plain2018-03-16T21:12:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
