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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 Six Illustrations and Portfolio ImagesErik Loyer1Media Galleriesstructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:13:11-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Piegan1This scene on Two Medicine river near the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains is typical of the western portion of the Piegan country, where the undulating upland prairies become rougher and more broken, and finally give place abruptly to mountains.plain2018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Morning Eagle - Piegan1At an age of more than ninety, Apinakuipita is still hale enough to ride his horse to the tribal gatherings.plain2018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Painted lodges - Piegan1Symbolically painted tipis are frequently observed among the Piegan. Sometimes incidents in the owner's career, especially as a warrior, are depicted, but more often as in this picture, the painting is conventional, and imitative of a tipi seen by the owner in a vision.plain2018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Tearing Lodge - Piegan1Pinokiminush is one of the few Piegan of advanced years and retentive memory. He was born about 1835 on Jusdith river in what is now northern Montana, and was found to be a valuable informant on many topics. The buffalo-skin cap is a part of his war costume, and was made and worn at the command of a spirit in a vision. The first fasting of Tearing Lodge for the sake of experiencing a vision is narrated by him in Volume VI, pages 79-81.plain2018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637In a Piegan lodge1Little Plume with his son Yellow Kidney occupies the position of honor, the space at the rear opposite the entrance. The picture is full of suggestion of the various Indian activities. In a prominent place lie the ever-present pipe and its accessories on the tobacco cutting-board. From the lodge-poles hang the buffalo-skin shield, the long medicine-bundle, an eagle-wing fan, and deerskin articles for accoutering the horse. The upper end of the rope is attached to the intersection of the lodge-poles, and in stormy weather the lower end is made fast to a stake near the centre of the floor space.plain2018-03-16T21:11:36-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637White Calf - Piegan1Unistai-poka (White Buffalo-calf) died at Washington in 1903. He was then almost eighty years of age, and had been the chief of his tribe for about a generation. In 1855, being then known as Feather, he signed the treaty negotiated by Governor Stevens. As a warrior, White Calf was famous among the tribes, but with the passing of inter tribal warfare he devoted himself to working in peaceful ways for the good of his people. He was remarkable in the breadth of his judgement, and in the readiness with which he recognized, and adapted himself to, the changes which his people were obliged to face when the buffalo vanished. Kindly, benevolent, and gentle of nature, White Calf yet possessed a sturdy determination and independence that bullying and threats could not move. Yet if reasons were advanced which appealed to his judgement, he was quick to acknowledge error and to modify his views - George Bird Grinnell..plain2018-03-16T21:11:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Double Runner - Piegan1Double Runner's is an excellent type of the Piegan physiognomy, as well as the ideal North American Indian as pictured by the average person. The native name of this individual is Ahjutomahka.plain2018-03-16T21:11:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Sun dance encampment - Piegan1This tribal assembly for the Sun Dance of 1898 comprised about two hundred and thirty tipis, including a number of visiting Blackfeet and Bloods from Canada. The scene is on the Piegan reservation in northern Montana, near Browning.plain2018-03-16T21:11:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Travaux - Piegan1With the most of the plains tribes the travois was the universal vehicle for transporting camp equipment, but is now rarely seen. In the days before the acquisition of horses a smaller form of the same device was drawn by dogs. The occasion of this picture was the bringing of the sacred tongues to the medicine-lodge ceremony, as narrated in Volume VI, page 40.plain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Grizzly-bear brave - Piegan1At least two of the Piegan Warrior societies (the Braves and the All Brave Dogs) included in their membership two men known as Grizzly-bear Braves. It was their duty, at the time of the society dances, to provide their comrades with meat, which they appropriated wherever they could find it. Their expression and demeanor did justice to their name, and in their official capacity they were generally feared by the people. See Volume VI, pages 20-21.plain2018-03-16T21:11:38-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Medicine-pipe - Piegan1Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and fur. Each one is believed to have been obtained long ago in some supernatural manner, as recounted in a myth. The medicine-pipe is ordinarily concealed in a bundle of wrappings, which are removed only when the sacred object is to be employed in healing sickness, or when it is to be transferred from one custodian to another in exchange for property. Such exchanges, occurring at intervals of a few years in the history of each pipe, are attended by much ceremonyplain2018-03-16T21:11:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Weasel Tail - Piegan1The accoutrement of this brave (Apohsuyis) comprises the well-known war-bonnet of eagle-feathers and weasel-skins, deerskin shirt, bone necklace, grizzly-bear claw necklace, and tomahawk-pipe of Hudson's Bay Company origin.plain2018-03-16T21:11:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Old person - Piegan1The young men eagerly seize every occasion of public festivity to don the habiliments of their warrior fathers.plain2018-03-16T21:11:39-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Bringing the sweat-lodge willows - Piegan1Young horseman are coming toward the Sun-dance encampment with willows for the faster's sweat-lodge, as described in Volume VI, page 43.plain2018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Iron Breast - Piegan1The picture illustrates the costume of a member of the Bulls (see Volume VI, page 28), an age society for many years obsolete.plain2018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Piegan encampment1The picture not only presents a characteristic view of an Indian camp on an uneventful day, but also emphasizes the grand picturesqueness of the Piegan, living as they do almost under the shadow of the towering Rocky mountains.plain2018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Three chiefs - Piegan1Three proud old leaders of their people. A picture of the primal upland prairies with their waving grass and limpid streams. A glimpse of the life and conditions which are on the verge of extinction.plain2018-03-16T21:11:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne type1The original of this portrait is Wako'yami ("his horse bobtailed") of the Northern Cheyenne.plain2018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Two Moons - Cheyenne1Two Moons was one of the Cheyenne chiefs at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, when Custer's command was annihilated by a force of Sioux and Cheyenne.plain2018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637At the ford - Cheyenne1The picture represents a party of warriors on the march. The scene is at Tongue river, in Montana.plain2018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Porcupine - Cheyenne1At the summer gatherings for such occasions as the Sun Dance, the men sometimes protect their heads from the merciless sun by a thatch of cottonwood leaves.plain2018-03-16T21:11:08-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Camp in the cottonwoods - Cheyenne1The scene shows a single lodge pitched in one of the cottonwood groves in the bottoms along Tongue river, in Montana.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Waiting in the forest - Cheyenne1At dusk in the neighborhood of the large encampments young men, closely wrapped in non-comittal blankets or white cotton sheets, may be seen gliding about the tipis or standing motionless in the shadow of the trees, each one alert for the opportunity to steal a meeting with his sweetheart.plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Little Wolf - Cheyenne1plain2018-03-16T21:11:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
