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161. L.R.298.b.2, 5(161)

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L.R.298.b.2, 5(161)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - the Bears. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of six Arikara members of the Bear medicine order standing in a line in the open air, in the midst of a recitation. 'After dancing around the sacred cedar, the members of the Bear order halt and complete their songs before reentering the medicine-lodge.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

162. L.R.298.b.2, 5(162)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(162)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - dance of the Black-Tail Deer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Close view of four members of the Arikara medicine fraternity performing the 'dance of the black-tail deer' in the open air, next to a sacred tree. 'The two dark figures are painted in a manner suggesting the elk, the others the antelope.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

163. L.R.298.b.2, 5(163)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(163)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - the Ducks. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Close view of three members of the Arikara medicine fraternity, captured in full-length profile as they dance in the open air. 'Three members of the medicine fraternity, painted to represent ducks and holding the rushes among which waterfowl rest, in their dance around the sacred cedar.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

164. L.R.298.b.2, 5(164)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(164)
Title:
Arikara medicine fraternity - the prayer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of members of the Arikara medicine fraternity crouched in a line on the ground out of doors, seen from behind and level with the horizon, with a sacred cedar tree beyond. 'This impressive picture from the Arikara medicine ceremony shows the priests in a semi-circle about the sacred cedar.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

165. L.R.298.b.2, 5(165)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(165)
Title:
Arikara girl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of an Arikara girl. 'A type produced by several generations of tribal and racial intermarriage. The subject is considered by her tribesmen to be a pure Arikara, but her features point unmistakably to a white ancestor, and there is little doubt that the blood o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

166. L.R.298.b.2, 5(166)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(166)
Title:
Arikara chief. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length full-face standing portrait of Sitting Bear, an Arikara chief, taken outside on a grassy plain. 'The tribal chief, Sitting Bear, is portrayed in full costume of scalp-shirt, leggings, and moccasins, all of deerskin, and eagle-feather war-bonnet and coup-stick.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

167. L.R.298.b.2, 5(167)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(167)
Title:
No Bear - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of No Bear, an Atsina. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.182: 'Born in 1841 near the mouth of Marias river. He counted a third coup when, at the age of fifteen, he first accompanied a war-party. On another raid a solitary India...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

168. L.R.298.b.2, 5(168)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(168)
Title:
Eagle Child - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length full-face portrait of Eagle Child, an Atsina. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.181. 'Born in 1862 east of the Little Rockies. He first followed the war-path when twenty years of age, but gained no honors on this occasion. His next experience was in a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

169. L.R.298.b.2, 5(169)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(169)
Title:
The land of the Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of a party of Atsina riding in a line through a wide plains landscape. The location is not identified but Curtis comments in volume 5 of The North American Indian (p.104): 'Whether the Atsina reached their historical habitat in northern Montana prior to the arrival of the Blackfeet in that ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

170. L.R.298.b.2, 5(170)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(170)
Title:
Horse capture - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length profile portrait of Horse Capture, an Atsina. He holds the barrell of a rifle against his chest. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.182: 'Born near Milk river in 1858. When about fifteen years of age he went with a war-party against the Piegan, but ach...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

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