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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 Nineteen
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12018-03-16T21:12:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637As it was in the old days1In early days, before white men invaded the Great Plains and ruthlessly slaughtered them by the hundreds of thousands, bison were of prime importance to the hunting tribes of the vast region in which those animals had their range. The bison was not only the chief source of food of the Plains Indians, but its skin was made into clothing, shields, packs, bags, snowshoes, and tent and boat covers; the horns were fashioned into spoons and drinking vessels; the sinew was woven into reatas, belts, personal ornaments, and the covers of sacred bundles; and the dried droppings, "buffalo-chips," were used as fuel. So dependent on the buffalo were these Indians that it became sacred to them, and many were the ceremonies performed for the purpose of promoting the increase of the herds.plain2018-03-16T21:12:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Wichita1The Wichita belong to the Caddoan linguistic family and in the earliest historical times lived in the Arkansas valley in the present Kansas. Here they were visited by Coronado and his force of Spaniards in 1541, in a region known to them, through Indian informants, as the Province of Quivira. Then, as in later times, after moving southward, the Wichita lived in grass-houses.plain2018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Wichita grass-house1The relatively permanent character of the typical dwelling of the Wichita indicates the sedentary life of this tribe. They were farmers in the main, but hunted the buffalo and other game in season.plain2018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Grass-house ceremony - Wichita1The rites performed at the building of a grass-house are described in Volume XIX, pages 64-72.plain2018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Henry - Wichita1The native names of the Indians are often unpronounceable by untrained white people, who therefore apply such incongruous English names as this and the following.plain2018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Walter Ross - Wichita1plain2018-03-16T21:12:42-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Story of the Washita1An Old Cheyenne warrior recounts the famous battle of the Washita in 1868, when the tribe was severely defeated by General Custer.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637On the Canadian River1The name of the Canadian river was not derived from any association with Canada or the Canadians, but from the Spanish cañada, on account of the high, cut banks of the stream. The Canadian originally divided the lands claimed by the Quapaw on the south and those of the Great and Little Osage on the both. The Indians in the picture are Cheyenne.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne sun-dance lodge1For an account of the Sun-dance ceremony and the erection of the lodge among the Southern Cheyenne, see Volume XIX, pages 121-128.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hotamitaye Society, Cheyenne sun-dance1The members of this and other bands, which were created by the Prophet of Cheyenne legend, go to the forest for the poles with which to build the lodge. While in the forest they decorate themselves and their horses with willow branches, leaving the rearmost horsemen to drag the poles to camp.plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Water rite purification, Cheyenne animal dance1The legend of the Animal dance is given on pages 133-135 of Volume XIX.plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637At the pool, animal dance - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne chief1The Cheyenne belong to the Algonquian linguistic family and therefore are related to the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and to the Arapaho of the north, and, much more remotely, to many of the tribes that once lives along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Midwest. They are now divided into the Northern Cheyenne, living in Montana, and the Southern Cheyenne who were assigned a reservation in the present Oklahoma in 1867.plain2018-03-16T21:07:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne costume1This woman's deerskin costume, ornamented with porcupine-quill embroidery and with beads and fringe, is characteristic of that of the Cheyenne; but such is now worn only on gala occasions and probably ere very long will be a thing of the past.plain2018-03-16T21:11:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Dog woman - Cheyenne1The woman's dress is embellished with elk-teeth.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Woista - Cheyenne woman1Remarkable strength of character is depicted in the features of this woman, and indeed in those of all the Cheyenne. Their former life was such that only the fittest could survive.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Black Belly - Cheyenne1The extreme age of this Cheyenne is quite apparent.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Old warrior - Arapaho1The Arapaho, of Algonquian stock like the Cheyenne, are divided into Northern and a Southern tribe, the former living on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming and the latter on the reservation assigned to them and the Cheyenne in the present Oklahoma in 1867.plain2018-03-16T21:11:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Black Man - Arapaho1plain2018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Standing Two - Oto1The Oto belong to the great Siouan linguistic family and originally formed, with other tribes, a part of the Winnebago. The typical ceremonial head-dress of the Oto of the present time is shown here and in the nest three plates.plain2018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Old Eagle - Oto1The head-dress of this Oto is characteristic of the older style, like that worn also by the related Osage in plate 680 and the adopted head-dress of the Comanche in plate 683. The medal worn by Old Eagle, in this case bearing the portrait of Lincoln, is like other medals given by the Government to noted chiefs from Washington's time.plain2018-03-16T21:11:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637John Abbott - Osage1The Osage (corrupted from Whzahzae, their own name) is a Siouan tribe - the wealthiest of all Indians, and probably the richest people in the world, population considered. They are most closely related to the Omaha, Quapaw, Ponca, and Kansa, with whom they once formed a single body.plain2018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637John Quapaw - Hunta Wakunta1The Quapaw are another Siouan tribe, otherwise known as Akansa, from which Arkansas river and state derive their name.plain2018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Esipermi - Comanche1There were no more vigorous people among the Indians of the Plains than the Comanche, a Shoshonean tribe, related to the Shoshone and Bannock of Idaho, from which region they entered the northern plains and drifted ever southward, following the bison in their wanderings. They were noted warriors and raiders, being the enemies of many tribes and extending their depredations far into Mexico. One need look no farther than the accompanying portraits to discern the warrior character of those old braves.plain2018-03-16T21:11:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Peyote drummer1The Peyote rite as practised by the Indians of Oklahoma is described in Volume XIX. No Indian custom has been the subject of greater controversy or has led to the adoption of more laws and regulations with a view of abolishing it, largely because its effects have been misunderstood by white people.plain2018-03-16T21:12:43-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
