Hunká-Lowanpi Ceremony. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing profile portrait of Saliva, an Ogalala Sioux: 'The subject of this picture is Saliva, an Ogalala Sioux, a priest of the Hunká-Lowanpi ceremony, which is fully described in Volume III, pages 71-87.'
Prayer to the Mystery. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length outdoor portrait of Picket Pin, an Ogalala Sioux, who stands turned to the right, raising a pipe towards the sky: 'In supplication the pipe was always offered to the Mystery by holding it aloft. At the feet of the worshipper lies a buffalo-skull, symbolic...
Invocation — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length outdoor portrait of a Sioux man making an invocation, with one arm upraised, at a boulder shrine: 'Scattered throughout the Indian country are found spots that are virtually shrines. These are often bowlders [sic] or other rocks which through some chance ...
Street scene with members of the funeral procession posed for the photographer. The coffin, in the form of a house-shaped box, can be seen at the right.
Pi Yün Ssu [Jade Cloud Temple, Western Hills, near Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the terrace of the Jade Cloud or Azure Clouds Temple (Biyun si), with a priest in the foreground contemplating the hills beyond.
Marble sentinel — Pi Yün Ssu [Jade Cloud Temple, Western Hills]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a marble stupa on the terrace of the Biyun si (Jade Cloud Temple or Temple of the Azure Clouds), with a monk standing in contemplation.