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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1906 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 12.

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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1908 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 5.

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Curtis Caption: A member of the medicine fraternity, wrapped in his sacred bear-skin. A biographical sketch of this subject is given in Volume V, page 178. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1908 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 5.

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Curtis Caption: The Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogans, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as in this case, beneath a tree. The simplicity of the loom and its product are here clearly shown, pictured in the early morning light under a large cottonwood. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1904 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 1.

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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1928 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 18.

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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1904 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 1.

Scope and Contents Curtis Caption: The name of Chief Joseph is better known than that of any other Northwestern Indian. To him popular opinion has given the credit of conducting a remarkable strategic movement from Idaho to northern Montana in the flight of the Nez Perces in 1877. To what extent this is a misconception has been demonstrated in the historical effort to retain what was rightly their own makes an unparalleled story in the annals of the Indian's resistance to the greed of the whites. That they...

Scope and Contents Curtis Caption: The Kutenai occupied portions of southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana. In this region of blue, mountain-girt lakes and majestic rivers they very naturally made use of canoes. The commoner form was the pine-bark craft still to be observed among the Kalispel (see plates 239, 240), but occasionally they made canoes of the form here illustrated, by stretching fresh elk-hides over a framework of fir strips or tough saplings. The one seen in the...

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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1899 Curtis original.

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Curtis Caption: In this physiognomy we read the dominant traits of Hopi character. The eyes speak of wariness, if not downright distrust. The mouth shows great possibilities of unyielding stubbornness. Yet somewhere in this face lurks an expression of masked warmheartedness and humanity. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1904 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 12.