Walter McClintock

Onesta and Nitana seated by McClintock's traveling-tipi

  

Open tipi with Indians, horses

 

Play-tipi with two Indian children

 

Tipi glowing with light from its inside fire

 

Wife of Red Fox coming to the Grass Dance 

with her daughter Sistsi (Small Bird)

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Charles C. Pierce Collection

Navajo family living in ancient cliff dwellings, Canyon de Chelly

 

Navajo mother with children, New Mexico

  

Old Indian women of San Fernando Mission, 1890

 

Paiute woman grinding acorns in wooden mortar, Yosemite Valley

 

Wallapai women at home, Arizona

 

Yuma Indians ready to play Pole & Hoop game, Arizona

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Walter McClintock

Gives-To-The-Sun on travois horse with White Calf immediately in front

  

Indian man, woman, and young child in ceremonial dress

  

 Indian woman standing at cooking tripod near 

water with two young Indian girls at her left

  

North Piegan women

  

Two Indian girls seated in field of flowers

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

George W. Ingalls

Paiute Indian men playing cards and gambling, Wadsworth, Nevada, 1912

  

Washoe summer camp scene near Sparks, Nevada, ca. 1912

  

Washoe women and a boy preparing food outside dwelling, ca. 1910

  

 Yellow Bear and wife (Arapaho), Indian Territory, 1875

  

Young married Paiute woman weaving water bottle. Near Sparks, Nevada, 1910

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Frank Rinehart

 Band of Sioux warriors

  

 Fox of Iowa, Bead Work

  

 Hattie Tom, Chiricahua Apache

  

 In Summer, Kiowa

  

Kiowas, 1898

Walter McClintock

 Blackfeet women by the Cutbank River

  

Brave Dogs smoking before a feast at the Eagle Tipi

  

 Grass dancers

 

 Group of tipis with Indians seated and standing around large skin

  

Heavens Peak with tipis

 

Puppy licking young Indian girl seated in small tipi

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Walter McClintock

 Blackfoot woman sewing with child nearby

  

 Coming Running with her children

  

 Drummers opening the ceremony of the Grass Dance

  

Front view of McClintock's Traveling-Lodge

  

 Hunting party

  

 

Indian in eagle-feather bonnet dancing in a circle of seated Indians

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

George W. Ingalls Collection

 John Wesley Powell and George W. Ingalls, 

Arizona camp without artist, 1873

   

 Little Foot (Cherokee), 1875

  

 Mrs. Growing Horn and small child (Sac & Fox), Oklahoma Territory, 1874

  

Paiute women gambling near Sparks, Nevada, 1912

  

Three Sac & Fox women with babies in cradleboards, Oklahoma Territory, 1874

 

Source: California Digital Archive

Frank Rinehart

Like his better-known contemporary Edward S. Curtis, Frank Rinehart made sensitive portraits of Native American people. Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to photograph the 1898 Indian Congress, part of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. More than five hundred Native Americans from thirty-five tribes attended the conference, providing the gifted photographer and artist an opportunity to create a stunning visual document of Native American life and culture at the dawn of the 20th century. Although the portraits are posed and artistically lighted in his studio, they have a candid intimacy that allows his subjects individuality and dignity, a quality not shared by most 19th-century ethnographic photography.

 Antoine Moise, Flathead

  

 Chief Wolf Robe, Cheyenne

  

 Cloud Man, Assinaboine

  

 Four Bull, Assinaboine

   

Freckled Face, Arapahoe

 

 Kiowas

Walter McClintock

Pittsburgh native Walter McClintock graduated from Yale in 1891. In 1896 he traveled west as a photographer for a federal commission investigating national forests. McClintock became friends with the expedition’s Blackfoot Indian scout, William Jackson or Siksikakoan. When the commission completed its field work, Jackson introduced McClintock to the Blackfoot community of northwestern Montana. Over the next twenty years, supported by the Blackfoot elder Mad Wolf, McClintock made several thousand photographs of the Blackfoot, their homelands, their material culture, and their ceremonies.

Like his contemporary, the photographer Edward Curtis, McClintock believed that Indian communities were undergoing swift, dramatic transformations that might obliterate their traditional culture. He sought to create a record of a life-way that might disappear. He wrote books, mounted photographic exhibitions, and delivered numerous public lectures about the Blackfoot.

 Apina-kaki (Morning woman) making rawhide cases

  

 Blackfeet camp in the evening with three men on horseback

  

 Blackfeet woman at work under a sun-shelter with a child nearby

  

 Cutbank Valley with Indian scouts

  

Group of Blackfeet women at the Buffalo tipi working on a large lodge-cover

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library