Showing posts with label Native Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Americans. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Plains Indians

 An idle hour, Piegan
[The Piegan are a branch of the Blackfeet tribe.]

 At the water's edge, Piegan

 Bull Shoe's children

 Day dreams, Piegan

 Flint Smoker's daughter, Piegan woman seated on ground in open field

 In a Piegan Lodge

 Iron Breast, full-length portrait of a Piegan man, standing, wearing war bonnet, 
holding tomahawk and animal pelt draped over his arm

 Piegan girl standing in doorway of tepee, wearing beaded buckskin dress, Montana

 Piegan man and woman standing in open prairie

Reuben Black Boy and family, Piegan

Friday, August 24, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Indians of the Northwest

 Masked Dancers, Kwakiutl

 Nespilim woman standing at water's edge

 Nespilim woman

 Quamichan woman paddles canoe near rushes at river's edge

 Tlakluit woman seated with mortar and pestle, pounding fish

 Umatilla child

 Umatilla maiden

 Wishram bride

 Wishram child

Wishram girl, profile

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Plains Indians

These are all portraits of "Sioux" Indians (they prefer the term "Lakota").

 Hollow Horn Bear

 Interior of tepee, man kneeling on ground removing buffalo hide around skull on ground

 Jack Red Cloud

 Little Dog

 Mother and child, Ogalala

 Oglala War Party

 Red Elk Woman, a Sioux girl

 Slow Bull, Oglala

When winter comes, Dakota

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Apsaroke Indians

The Apsaroke tribe (more commonly known as the Crow) lived in southern Montana and Wyoming.

 Apsaroke man on horseback on snow-covered ground, 
probably in Pryor Mountains, Montana

 Apsaroke mother

 Apsaroke woman standing in snow scooping water from a stream with a can

 Chief and his Staff, Apsaroke

 Coups Well Known, Apsaroke

 Mother and child, Apsaroke

Upshaw, an Apsaroke man in full headdress

Friday, June 8, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Indians of the Northwest

Here are photos by Edward S. Curtis of Indian people of the Northwest Coast and Columbia Plateau.

 A Skokomish Indian chief's daughter
[about the Skokomish Tribe]

 A mat shelter, Skokomish

 Cayuse woman on horseback, wearing beaded buckskin dress
[about the Cayuse Tribe]

 Cayuse woman

 Dusty Dress, a Kalispel Indian woman
[about the Kalispel Tribe]

 Home of the Kalispel

 Kalispel girl

 Klamath man in traditional dress squatting next to an enormous tree
[about the Klamath Tribe]
  Photograph shows a Klamath woman in a dugout canoe resting in a field of wokas, or great yellow water lilies (nymphaea polysepala) used as food, probably in the Klamath Basin area of Oregon

 Klamath woman seated in front of house thatched with rush mats

Klamath woman

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Southwest Indians, ctd

More photos of Southwest Indians by Edward S. Curtis.

 A Navajo Woman

 Acoma Roadway

 Acoma Water Carriers

 Apache Babe in Carrier

 At the Ford, Apaches

Jicarilla Girl in Feast Dress

 Maricopa Water Girl

 Mizheh and Babe, Apache

 Navaho matron

 Papago Indian woman

Qahatika Girl