Description of PhotographThis is an 8x12 inch Reproduction Photograph made from a high quality scan of the original. When evaluating the quality of the photo, please keep in mind that most photos in our collection were taken over 100 years ago.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
Size
Approximately 8x12 inches.
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