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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1921 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 12.

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Curtis Caption: These two masked performers in the winter dance represent huge, mythical birds. Kotsuis (the Nakoaktok equivalent of the Qagyuhl Kaloqutsuis) and Hohhuq are servitors in the house of the man-eating monster Pahpaqalanohsiwi. See page 160. The mandibles of these tremendous wooden masks are controlled by strings. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1914 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 10.

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Curtis Caption: In the gray dawn of a foggy morning the hunter crouches in his canoe among the rushes, waiting for the water-fowl to come within range. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1910 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 7.

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Curtis Caption: The hawk fastened on the head is illustrative of the manner of wearing the symbol of one's tutelary spirit. A biographical sketch of this subject is given in Volume IV, page 203. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1908 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 4.

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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1907 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 3.

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Curtis Caption: It would be difficult to conceive of a more aboriginal than this Mohave girl. Her eyes are those of the fawn of the forest, questioning the strange things of civilization upon which it gazes for the first time. She is such a type as Father Garces may have viewed on his journey through the Mohave country in 1776. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1903 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 2.

Scope and Contents Curtis Caption: In the early years of the nineteenth century various explorers noted that the bands dwelling along the upper course of the Columbia, among which the Nespilim were included, wore practically no clothing. Excepting as the cold made some protection necessary. The hair of the women was arranged in two knots at the sides of the face ? a method of hairdressing still in vogue among the Salish on Fraser river. Prior to the middle of the century the use of deerskin garments had become...

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20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1900 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 8.

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Curtis Caption: This picture was made in the heart of the Bad Lands of South Dakota. The subject is the sub-chief Red Hawk, a sketch of whose life is given on page 188 of Volume III. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1905 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 3.

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Curtis Caption: Members of Coronado's army of explorers in 1540 and espejo in 1583 noted the "cisterns to collect snow and water" on the rock of Acoma. 20x24" photogravure, brown ink, reprint from the 1904 Curtis original. Published in The North American Indian vol 16.