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Indian tribes of California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Basin
Title: Indian tribes of California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Basin
Creator(s): Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1905-c1924.
Summary: 12318-A-Cahuilla: Portraits of men and women, some identified; a woman and a girl with baskets, standing under palm trees; views of Palm Canon; brush and wooden homes and structures; and remains of an ancient fishing area. 12318-B-Chemehuevi: Portraits of women, men, and children; brush and wooden homes and granary; a still life with baskets and pottery; and a trail between trees. 12318-C-Hupa: Portraits of men (including a chief) and women (including a shaman), many wearing traditional clothing; men fishing for salmon or trout in canoes, on fishing platforms or weirs; a trout trap; Jumping Dance dancers wearing woodpecker-scalp headbands, some holding deer effigies; White Deerskin dancers; homes and sweat-houses; and still life images of baskets, beaded dress work, dentalium money purses, and sticks used in guessing game. 12318-D-Tolowa: Portraits of men and women (including a basketmaker), some wearing traditional clothing or facial tattoos; a woman standing on the shore; a man measuring shell money; and elk-horn spoons. 12318-E-Klamath: Portraits of men, women, and children, most wearing traditional clothing; women gathering tule (cattails) and wokas (seeds of pond lily) and grinding wokas; men in canoes, hunting ducks, drumming, praying, and standing above Crater Lake; and a tule hut. 12318-F-Yurok, Karok, Achomawi: Portraits of men and women, some identified; mother with a child in a cradleboard; fishing, drumming, and basket making; plank houses, sweat-houses, and other dwellings; traditional dugout canoes; cemetery; and baskets. 12318-G-Diegueno and Pomo: Portraits of men, women, and young adults, some identified, some wearing ceremonial clothing; women cooking acorns and gathering seeds and tule; a man wearing a wig standing on the lake shore; a traditional canoe; dwellings and ceremonial structure; and baskets and magnesite beads. 12318-H-Paviotso (Northern Paiute), Washo and Yokuts: Portraits of men (including a tribal chief) and women (including Datsolali, the Washo basket maker); men fishing, posing near a river, rock painting, and scraping a deerskin; a woman harvesting tule; dwellings; Walker Lake; and volcanic mud formations. 12318-I-Cupeno, Kato, Maidu, Miwok, Mono, Wailaki, Wappo, Yuki, Serrano, and California: Portraits of men, women, and children, most unidentified; a man fishing; a woman making baskets; dwellings; a canoe made from tule (tule balsa); and bowls made from steatite (soapstone) and sandstone.
Notes:
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Copyright deposit; Edward S. Curtis; 1905-1924.
Most (257) published in The North American Indian / by Edward S. Curtis. New York : Johnson Reprint Corp., [1970, c1907-30]. (E77.C98) (NAI and Suppl.)
Subjects:
Indians of North America--California--1900-1930.
Indians of North America--Pacific Northwest--1900-1930.
Indians of North America--Structures--1900-1930.
Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--1900-1930.
Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1900-1930.
Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1900-1930.
Paiute Indians--1900-1930.
Shoshonean Indians--1900-1930.
Portrait photographs--1900-1930.
Bookmark /00652916/
Bookmark:00652916
Bookmark:00652916

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