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Archive Reference (shelfmark) L.R.298.b.2, 1 Language Not applicable Subject Navaho Indians

1. L.R.298.b.2, 1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(1)
Title:
The vanishing race — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group of Navaho on horseback, seen from the rear: 'The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn of their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeli...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

2. L.R.298.b.2, 1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(2)
Title:
Geronimo — Apache. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of the Bedonkohe Apache war leader Geronimo (c.1823-1909): 'This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at that time seventy-six years of age, thus making the year ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

3. L.R.298.b.2, 1(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(26)
Title:
A chief of the desert — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'Copyright 1904 by E.S. Curtis'. Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait, dramatically lit and posed, of an unidentified Navaho chief: 'Picturing not just the individual but a characteristic member of the tribe — disdainful, ene...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

4. L.R.298.b.2, 1(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(27)
Title:
Women of the desert — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of two Navaho women on horseback, seen from the side with their faces turned away: 'The Navaho women are, for the greater part, the owners of the flocks and invariably, with the children, the herders. They are so thoroughly at home on their scrubby ponies that t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 item

5. L.R.298.b.2, 1(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(28)
Title:
Cañon de Chelly — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of towering cliffs in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, with a group of Navaho on horseback crossing in the foreground: 'A wonderfully scenic spot is this in northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navaho country — one of their strongholds, in fact. Cañon de Che...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

6. L.R.298.b.2, 1(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(29)
Title:
Cañon del Muerto — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of cliffs in the Cañon del Muerto, Arizona, with a group of four horsemen in the middle ground. 'This "Cañon of the Dead" is a branch of Cañon de Chelly, deriving its name from having been the scene of the massacre of a band of Navaho by a troop of Mexican sold...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 item

7. L.R.298.b.2, 1(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(30)
Title:
At the shrine — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Inscribed in the negative: 'Copyright 1904 By E.S. Curtis'. Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of three Navaho with their horses, standing beside a shrine made of stones: 'Scattered about the Navaho reservation are so many cairn shrines. The Navaho, when alone or in parti...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

8. L.R.298.b.2, 1(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(31)
Title:
Nesjája Hatáli — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders half-profile portrait of Nesjája Hatáli: 'A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Cañon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjája Hatáli was also assistant medicine-man in two nin...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

9. L.R.298.b.2, 1(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(32)
Title:
A son of the desert — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of a Navaho boy: 'In the early morning this boy, as if springing from the earth itself, came to the author's desert camp. Indeed, he seemed a part of the very desert. His eyes bespeak all the curiosity, all the wonder of his prim...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

10. L.R.298.b.2, 1(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 1(34)
Title:
The blanket weaver — Navaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Navaho woman seated at a loom out of doors, seen from the rear: 'In Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogáns, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1904
Extent:
1 item

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