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151. L.R.298.b.2, 5(151)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(151)
Title:
Four Horns - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Four Horns, an Arikara. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.179: 'Born in 1847 near Fort Berthold. At the age of fourteen he accompanied a war-party against the Sioux. Two years later he enlisted as scout at Fort Buford; he ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

152. L.R.298.b.2, 5(152)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(152)
Title:
White Shield - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length profile portrait of White Shield, an Arikara. 'A mixed-blood member of the medicine fraternity.'
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Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

153. L.R.298.b.2, 5(153)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(153)
Title:
Sitting Bear - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Sitting Bear, an Arikara. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.180: 'Born in 1844 on the west side of the Missouri, opposite present Washburn, North Dakota. He was eighteen years of age before making his first trial at war, a...
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Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

154. L.R.298.b.2, 5(154)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(154)
Title:
Bear's Teeth - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Bear's Teeth, an Arikara. 'A member of the Night order of the medicine fraternity.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

155. L.R.298.b.2, 5(155)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(155)
Title:
Little Sioux - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Little Sioux, an Arikara.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

156. L.R.298.b.2, 5(156)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(156)
Title:
Bull Neck - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Bull Neck, an Arikara. 'A member of the Buffalo order of the medicine fraternity. Bull Neck is portrayed wearing his head-dress of buffalo horns and hide. A biographical sketch is given in Volume V, page 178.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

157. L.R.298.b.2, 5(157)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(157)
Title:
Arikara Medicine Fraternity. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of twenty-two members of the Arikara medicine fraternity, posed outside in front of the medicine lodge in two rows of seated and standing men. 'In this group are shown the principal participants in the reenactment of the Arikara medicine ceremony, which was given for the author's ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

158. L.R.298.b.2, 5(158)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(158)
Title:
Arikara Medicine Ceremony - Dance of the Fraternity. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of members of the Arikara medicine fraternity dancing in procession in the open air. 'After each order has performed its dance about the sacred cedar, the entire fraternity, group by group, emerges from the lodge and dances.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

159. L.R.298.b.2, 5(159)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(159)
Title:
The announcement - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of Bear's Teeth, a member of the Night order of the Arikara medicine fraternity, seen in a steeply angled perspective from the base of an earthen medicine lodge. 'Among the Missouri River Indians of the earthen lodges - the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara - the chiefs and priests made their an...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

160. L.R.298.b.2, 5(160)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(160)
Title:
The rush gatherer - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter-length full-face outdoor portrait of an Arikara woman, holding a knife and a sheave of rushes, with wind-blown rush plants growing in the background. 'The Arikaras, as well as their close neighbors, the Mandan and Hidatsa, made many mats of rushes. These were used largely as floor ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

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