Genre: Portrait Photography View of Sioux horsemen encircling a tipi. 'It was customary for a war-party to ride in circles about the tipi of their chief before starting on a raid into the country of the enemy.'
The winter camp — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of a tipi pitched in a snow-filled valley amid bare winter trees: 'With the coming of winter the plains tribes pitched their camps in forested valleys, where they not only were protected from the fierce winds of the plains, but had an ample supply of fuel at ha...
An Assiniboin camp. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of four tipis pitched in a line next to woodland: 'In making their camps the Indians often choose most picturesque spots.'