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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
12018-03-16T21:12:56-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Keyword PathsErik Loyer1Explore the Images Through Keywordsstructured_gallery2018-03-16T21:12:57-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
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12018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Apache reaper1Here the Apache woman is seen in her small wheatfield harvesting the grain with a hand sickle, the method now common to all Indians of the Southwest.plain2018-03-16T21:06:59-07:00Erik 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
12018-03-16T21:11:23-07:00Erik 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
12018-03-16T21:11:25-07:00Erik 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
12018-03-16T21:11:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Ogalala woman1A face so strong that it is almost masculine, showing strikingly how slight may be the difference between the male and female physiognomy in some primitive people.plain2018-03-16T21:11:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Sioux girl1A young Sioux woman in a dress made entirely of deerskin, embroidered with beads and porcupine-quills.plain2018-03-16T21:11:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:47-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Dusty dress - Kalispel1The Kalispel young woman, Skohlpba, is garbed in a dress ornamented with shells that imitate elk-tusks. The braids of hair are wound with strips of otter fur, and a weasel-skin dangles from each. The bands of white on the hair are effected with white clay.plain2018-03-16T21:11:47-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:52-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Piopio-maksmaks - Wallawalla1Piopio-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.plain2018-03-16T21:11:52-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Columbia near Wind River1The Chinookan tribes of the Columbia obtained their canoes for the greater part from the coast tribes of Washington. The woman in the picture is the daughter of the former Cascade chief Tamahl, quoted in Volume VII, pages 26-28.plain2018-03-16T21:11:12-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:55-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637On the beach - Chinook1An old Chinook woman with staff and clam basket makes her way slowly over the mud flats of the southern end of Shoalwater bay, in Washington. Chiih (Burden-Basket, Catherine Hawks), is one of a very few survivors of the populous tribe that formerly occupied that part of the state of Washington lying between the middle of Shoalwater bay and the Columbia.plain2018-03-16T21:11:55-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:56-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Chief's daughter - Skokomish1Pride of birth played a prominent role in the life of the Pacific Coast Indians. Society was rigidly divided into nobility, common people, and slaves taken in war. No woman of common birth could afford the luxury of the fur robe worn by the subject of the picture.plain2018-03-16T21:11:56-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:57-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Suquamish woman1The Suquamish were one of numerous Puget Sound tribes.plain2018-03-16T21:11:57-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Princess Angeline1This aged woman, daughter of the chief Siahl (Seattle), was for many years a familiar figure in the streets of Seattle.plain2018-03-16T21:11:59-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Painting a hat - Nakoaktok1The painter is clad in a short, seamless, cedar-bark cape, which is worn for protection from rain. That she is a woman of wealth and rank is shown by the abalone-shell nose-ornament and the gold bracelets, no less than by her possession of a "chief's hat". These waterproof hats, of a form borrowed from the Haida are made of closely woven shreds of fibrous spruce-roots, and are ornamented with one of the owner's crests - a highly conventionalized painting of some animal or mythological being.plain2018-03-16T21:12:00-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Koskimo woman1The head is a good illustration of the extremes to which the Quatsino Sound tribes carried the practice of artificially lengthening the skulls of their infants.plain2018-03-16T21:12:06-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Into the shadow - Clayoquot1A medicine-woman, alone is seeking a solitary place in which to perform her rites of bodily purification. Most of the Indian women are no less skillful that the men in handling canoes.plain2018-03-16T21:11:13-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Bark gatherer1These people still use large quantities of yellow-cedar bark in the manufacture of mats, and formerly this material furnished them their clothing also. The Hesquiat woman in the picture has a bulky pack of bark on her back, and in her hand is a steel-bladed adz of the primitive type.plain2018-03-16T21:12:09-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Haiyahl - Nootka1A Nootka woman in profile, with a shell nose-ring and fur-edged bark blanket.plain2018-03-16T21:12:10-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Potter mixing clay1This woman, so aged that her shrivelled skin hangs in folds, still finds pleasure in creating artistic and utilitarian pieces of pottery.plain2018-03-16T21:12:14-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Karok baskets1The basketry of the Karok does not differ from that of the Hupa and the Yurok. The process is always twining, and the usual materials are hazel rod for the warp, roots of the digger or the yellow pine for the weft, and Xerophyllum grass for white overlay, bark of the maidenhair fern for black, and fibres from the stem of Woodwardia fern, dyed in alder-bark juice in the mouth of the workwoman, for red. Represented in the plate are the receptacle for the storage of seeds and nuts, the burden-basket, the winnowing tray, various sizes of mush-baskets and food containers, and the cradle-basket.plain2018-03-16T21:12:17-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hupa woman1It would be difficult to find a better type of Hupa female physiognomy.plain2018-03-16T21:12:18-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Woman's primitive dress - Tolowa1This is the gala costume of Coast Athapascan women. The ordinary dress was a deerskin kilt with the opening at the front protected by a fringed apron of deerskin or of bark. Ordinarily the feet and the upper part of the body were bare.plain2018-03-16T21:12:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:06:48-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Achomawi basket-maker1The Achomawi, or Pit River Indians, produce baskets only by the process known as twining, which is true weaving, never by coiling, which is actually a sewing process. In general their baskets have bottoms and sides slightly rounded, openings broad, and depth rather shallow. The usual materials are willow rods for the warp, or upright elements, and pie-root strands for the weft, or horizontal elements. The structure in the background is a summer hut, a rudely conical or hemispherical tipi covered with tule mats. The workwoman is wearing a rabbit-skin robe.plain2018-03-16T21:06:48-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Hupa woman in primitive costume1This is an excellent example of the gala costume of Hupa women. The deerskin skirt is worn about the hips and meets in front, where the opening is covered by a similar garment. Both are fringed and heavily beaded, and the strands of the apron are ornamented with the shells of pine-nuts.plain2018-03-16T21:12:21-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Yaundanchi Yokuts woman1The Yaudanchi formerly controlled the territory about the headwaters of Tule river in Tulare county, including the present Tule River reservation, where the survivors are quartered.plain2018-03-16T21:12:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cupeño woman1The 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 reservatiplain2018-03-16T21:12:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Serrano woman of Tejon1The 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 Kitanemukplain2018-03-16T21:12:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Diegueño woman of Santa Ysabel1plain2018-03-16T21:12:26-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Diegueño woman of Campo1plain2018-03-16T21:12:27-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Datsolali, Washo basket-maker1The 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.plain2018-03-16T21:12:28-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:12:29-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Walvia1Walvia is a characteristic type of Taos womanhood.plain2018-03-16T21:12:29-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Aiyowitsa - Cochiti1Carolina Quintana, the most mentally alert Indian woman met in more that twenty years of field work in connection with this series, is a shining example of what Pueblo women can become with a little schooling and instruction in modern housekeeping. She was mainly responsible for the compilation of Cochiti relationship terms given in Volume XVI.plain2018-03-16T21:11:15-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Zuni woman1Bowls of food are often thus carried on the head with a woven yucca ring during an intermission in or following a ceremony, when the participants feast.plain2018-03-16T21:11:07-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:02-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A young horsewoman1plain2018-03-16T21:10:02-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Cheyenne young woman1plain2018-03-16T21:10:25-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:29-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Flathead young woman1plain2018-03-16T21:10:29-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:10:45-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Wishham young woman1plain2018-03-16T21:10:45-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:54-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A woman of Hesquiat1plain2018-03-16T21:07:54-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:55-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A shaman or medicine woman1plain2018-03-16T21:07:55-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:07:55-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Costume of a woman shaman - Clayoquot1plain2018-03-16T21:07:55-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:08:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637Paviotso woman of Pyramid Lake1plain2018-03-16T21:08:37-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:08:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A woman of Palm Springs - Cahuilla1plain2018-03-16T21:08:40-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:08:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Capitan Grande woman -1plain2018-03-16T21:08:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:08:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A young woman of Campo -1plain2018-03-16T21:08:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637
12018-03-16T21:08:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637A Paviotso woman of Walker Lake1plain2018-03-16T21:08:41-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637