A heavy load — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a Sioux woman trudging through snow-covered woodland, wrapped in a blanket and bearing a bundle of firewood on her back: 'Summer and winter the Sioux women performed the heavy work of the camp, and what was seemingly drudgery was to her part of the pleasu...
The wood gatherer — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View from behind of a Sioux woman clad in a fringed mantle, carrying a bundle of wood through a snowy wood: 'Fuel for cooking and for warming the tipi was gathered and carried by the women, as a part of their domestic work.'
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...