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1. "Ceremony"
2. "Girl"
3. "Home"
4. "Mask"
5. "Primitive"
6. "Woman"
7. "Portrait"
8. "Spirit"
9. "Dance"
10. "Food"
11. "Ancient"
12. "Material Culture"

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Geronimo - Apache This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at the time seventy-six years of age, thus making the year of his birth 1829. The picture was taken at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the day before the inauguration of President Roosevelt, Geronimo being one of the warriors who took part in the inaugural parade at Washington. He appreciated the honor of being one of those chosen for this occasion, and the catching of his features while the old warrior was in a retrospective mood was most fortunate.
Alchise - Apache
Kaviu - Pima
Captain Charley - Maricopa
Tonovige - Havasupai
Jack Red Cloud
Little Hawk
Yellow Kidney - Piegan
Cheyenne type
Flathead type
Luqaiot - Kittitas The original of this portrait is a son Owhi (Ohai), who as chief of the Salishan band inhabiting Kittitas valley, Washington, at first appeared to favor the Stevens treaty of 1855, but a few months later was drawn into the Indian uprising by the act of another son, Qahlchun, in killing some prospectors. At the termination of hostilities Luqaiot made his permanent home among the Spokan, taking for his wife the daughter of a Spokan chief and widow of his executed brother Qahlchun. Luqaiot's recollections of the events of these times will be found scattered through the account of the Yakima war in Volume VII.
Typical Nez Perce
Lawyer - Nez Perce
Old "Ukiah" - Pomo
Datsolali, Washo basket-maker The coiled baskets produced by this woman have not been equalled by any Indian now living. Compare her work, shown in Plate 541, with the baskets of another woman as illustrated in Plate 542. The latter, seen alone, would be very excellent examples of Indian basketry, but their comparative coarseness is easily seen even in photographic reproduction. About ninety years old, Datsolali appears to be in the early sixties. She has the pride of a master in his craft, and a goodly endowment of artistic temperament. Persuading her to sit for a portrait is a task not to be lightly undertaken. Tatsolali (said to mean "big hips") is a nickname. Her proper name is Tabuta.
Ambrosio Martinez - San Juan
Zuni governor
Old Eagle - Oto
Esipermi - Comanche There 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.
Uyowutcha - Nunivak
Ugiyaku - Nunivak
Curtis and His Collaborators
Focus on the Portraits: Video Essay
AfterImages
Geronimo
The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs
The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Bibliography
The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs
The Literariness of the Curtis Photographs: Endnotes
Warm tones and Wigs
Chief Josef –Nez Perce
Jackson and Curtis at the end
Upshaw – Apsaroke
Princess Angeline
Visualizing the "Vanishing Race": the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis Bibliography
Oldest man of Nootka
Hesquiat woman
A woman of Hesquiat
A Zuni Woman
Pima matron
Judith - Mohave
Tonovige - Havasupai
Ogalala woman
Sioux girl
Two Bear Woman - Piegan
Dusty dress - Kalispel
Nespilim woman
Piopio-maksmaks - Wallawalla Piopio-maksmaks, quoted in Volume VIII, pages 20-21, is the son of the Piopio-maksmaks who as principal chief of the Wallawalla negotiated a treaty with Governor Isaac I. Stevens in the Wallawalla valley in 1855. The father was killed while a captive of the Oregon volunteers, and the son thereafter lived permanently among the Nez Perces, having married a woman of that tribe. Piopio-maksmaks possesses as unusually strong face, and his remarkably piercing eye betokens a man possessing the courage characteristic of his family and tribe.
Suquamish woman
Princess Angeline
Lummi woman
Koskimo woman
Hesquiat woman
Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket
Nootka woman
Haiyahl - Nootka
Hopi woman
Klamath woman
Old Klamath woman
Hupa woman
Coast Pomo woman
Aged Pomo woman
Wappo woman
Yaundanchi Yokuts woman
Cupeño woman The Cupeño are a small Shoshonean group of mountaineers formerly residing at the head of San Luis Rey river in north-central San Diego county. Popularly known as Aguas Calientes and as Warner's Ranch Indians, they gained considerable prominence at the beginning of the century when the Supreme Court ruled adversely upon their title to the land of their nativity. In 1903 they were settled at Pala reservation on lands adjoining those of the Luiseños, and their former habitat is now beautiful Warner's ranch. Cupeño is a Spanish derivative of Kupa, the name of their former village. The surviving population of Wolak, the other Cupeño settlement, is now on Los Coyotes reservati
Serrano woman of Tejon The Serranos (Spanish, "mountaineers"), a Shoshonean branch comprising numerous local groups, occupied San Bernardino valley, San Bernardino mountains north of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, a portion of Mojave desert north of that range and east of Mojave river, and Tehachapi mountains. This last group, who lived principally on El Paso and Tejon creeks, were the Kitanemuk. In 1853 most of the resident Indians, including not only various Shoshoneans but many Yokuts, were taken to Tule river reservation. Tejon rancheria remains, however, a settlement of various Shoshoneans, but predominantly Kitanemuk
Desert Cahuilla woman
Diegueño woman of Santa Ysabel
Diegueño woman of Campo
Datsolali, Washo basket-maker The coiled baskets produced by this woman have not been equalled by any Indian now living. Compare her work, shown in Plate 541, with the baskets of another woman as illustrated in Plate 542. The latter, seen alone, would be very excellent examples of Indian basketry, but their comparative coarseness is easily seen even in photographic reproduction. About ninety years old, Datsolali appears to be in the early sixties. She has the pride of a master in his craft, and a goodly endowment of artistic temperament. Persuading her to sit for a portrait is a task not to be lightly undertaken. Tatsolali (said to mean "big hips") is a nickname. Her proper name is Tabuta.
Washo woman
Walvia
Taos woman
Acoma woman
Zuni woman
A Cree woman
Dog woman - Cheyenne
Woista - Cheyenne woman
Ugiyaku - Nunivak
Woman and child - Nunivak
An Apache-Mohave woman
Good Day Woman - Ogalala
Flathead woman - Apsaroke
Hidatsa woman
Scattered Corn Woman - Mandan
Arikara woman
Piegan woman
Cheyenne woman
Cheyenne young woman
Spokan woman
Cayuse woman
Wishham young woman
Cowichan woman
Chimakum woman
A Clayoquot woman
A Makah woman
A woman of Kiusta - Haida
A woman of Massett - Haida
A Hopi woman
Hupa woman
Karok woman
Achomawi woman
Klamath woman
A Kato woman
A Wailaki woman
Old woman in mourning - Yuki
A Yuki woman
A southern Miwok woman
A Maidu woman
A Chukchansi woman