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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 Two Illustrations and Portfolio ImagesErik Loyer1Media Galleriesstructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:13:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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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
12018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Facade - San Xavier del Bac Mission1plain2018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Luzi - Papago1The Papago women always carry their burdens on, or supported from, their heads. When the burden - be it a basket, pottery, or a box - has a flat or a rounded bottom, the ring of the woven yucca is placed on the head in order to give the load a firm position for carrying, and to relieve the bearer of pressure.plain2018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Qahatika water girl1plain2018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Mohave chief1A representative type of the Mohave men.plain2018-03-16T21:11:22-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Mohave water carrier1A Mohave mother on the bank of the Colorado river. The Mohave carry practically all burdens on their heads. Being unusually large and strongly built, the women thus bear immense loads with apparent ease. A woman has been seen to balance on her head a railroad tie of such weight that a strong man could do no more than pick it up, and addition a heavy load in each hand.plain2018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Judith - Mohave1A young Mohave woman about eighteen years of age.plain2018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Quniaika - Mohave1Although this pictures one of the best of his tribe, it serves as well to illustrate a man of the Age of Stone.plain2018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Mosa - Mohave1It would be difficult to conceive of a more aboriginal than this Mohave girl. Her eyes are those of the fawn of the forest, questioning the strange things of civilization upon which it gazes for the first time. She is such a type as Father Garces may have viewed on his journey through the Mohave country in 1776.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Maricopa girl1The young Maricopa women affect the Mexican more than the Indian dress; but they are by no means unpicturesque in their garb of many colors as they gracefully bear their burden on their heads.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Mat Stams - Maricopa1This individual exhibits strongly the characteristics of the Yuman stock to which he belongs.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hipah with arrow-brush - Maricopa1Arrow-brush is extensively used by the tribes of this region as a covering for their houses. In earlier time they lived in circular houses constructed of a framework of heavy poles covered with arrow-brush and coated with mud. In many of the modern rectangular houses, also, the arrow-brush is used, bound together closely with withes, and plastered on the outside with adobe.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637By the canal - Maricopa1Earthen utensils of native manufacture are in general use among the Maricopa. Large jars are kept in the houses to be filled with a day's supply of water; smaller ones are used for conveying water, and as cooking utensils.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik 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
12018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Captain Charley - Maricopa1This portrait shows clearly the strongly Yuman cast of features retained by this branch of the stock.plain2018-03-16T21:11:24-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Home of the Havasupai1The Havasupai dwelling is dome-shaped framework of poles, sometimes covered with brush and reeds only, in other cases banked well toward the top with earth. The cañon walls shown in the background are of red sandstone, and rise perpendicularly four hundred feet. Back of these walls extend vast stretches of rough, broken country, intersected by many ravines and capped by sharp pinnacles. This picture was taken in early spring, when the peach orchards of the Havasupai were in full blossom.plain2018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tonovige - Havasupai1This portrait was made in winter while a party of Havasupai were encamped in the high country above their cañon home. As a snowstorm was raging at the time, the woman's hair became dotted with flakes, as the picture reveals.plain2018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Getting water - Havasupai1The beautiful limpid Havasu flows the entire length of Cataract Cañon furnishing the Havasupai with ample water for irrigation and for domestic use. They carry the household supply of water in gummed wicker bottles held in place on the back by a burden strap passing across the forehead, in a manner similar to that of the Hopi.plain2018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
