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1001. L.R.298.b.2, 2(74)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(74)
Title:
Tonovíge — Havasupai. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Tonovíge, a Havasupai woman: 'This portrait was made in winter while a party of Havasupai were encamped in the high country above their cañon home. As a snowstorm was raging at the time, the woman's hair became dotted with fla...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

1002. L.R.298.b.2, 2(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 2(75)
Title:
Getting water — Havasupai. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a Havasupai woman collecting water on the banks of the Havasu river: 'The beautiful limpid Havasu flows the entire length of Cataract Cañon, furnishing the Havasupai with ample water for irrigation and for domestic use. They carry the household supply of wate...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903
Extent:
1 item

1003. L.R.298.b.2, 3(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(76)
Title:
The medicine-man. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length full-face portrait of Slow Bull, an Ogalala Sioux medicine-man, standing in a grassy landscape. 'Invocation and supplication enter so much into the life of the Indian that this picture of the grim old warrior invoking the Mysteries is most characteristic....
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

1004. L.R.298.b.2, 3(77)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(77)
Title:
Ogalala war-party. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of a group of Sioux on horseback: 'Here is depicted a group of Sioux warriors as they appeared in the days of intertribal warfare, carefully making their way down a hillside in the vicinity of the enemy's camp. Many hold in their hands, instead of weapons, mere ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

1005. L.R.298.b.2, 3(78)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(78)
Title:
Two-Strike. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders, half-profile portrait, turned to the left, of Two-Strike, a Brulé Sioux chief. A biographical sketch of Two-Strike appears in volume 3 of 'The North American Indian', page 190: 'Born 1821. At the age of twelve he accompanied his first war-party ag...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

1006. L.R.298.b.2, 3(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(79)
Title:
Sioux chiefs. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three Sioux chiefs on horseback. 'Very often two or three men would form themselves into a war-party and ride away to be gone weeks or months. Sometimes they returned with scalps, or horses, or women; and again the war-party, whether large or small, met d...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

1007. L.R.298.b.2, 3(80)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(80)
Title:
An oasis in the Bad Lands. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of Red Hawk, an Ogalala Sioux, astride his horse, which is drinking from a pool on a wide grassy plain. 'This picture was made in the heart of the Bad Lands of South Dakota. The subject is the sub-chief Red Hawk, a sketch of whose life is given on page 188 o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1905
Extent:
1 item

1008. L.R.298.b.2, 3(81)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(81)
Title:
Jack Red Cloud. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders profile portrait, turned to the right, of Jack Red Cloud, an Ogalala Sioux. 'The subject of this portrait is the son of the Ogalala chief Red Cloud.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

1009. L.R.298.b.2, 3(82)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(82)
Title:
Hollow Horn Bear. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Hollow Horn Bear, a Brulé Sioux. A biography of him is given in The North American Indian, volume 3, p. 186: 'Born I850. First war-party at twelve, against Pawnee. At nineteen he took the pipe and led a party, which killed a n...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

1010. L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 3(83)
Title:
The Sun Dancer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a sun dancer of the Teton Sioux: 'As they dance, the performers never leave the spot on which they stand, the movement consisting in a slight upward spring from the toes and ball of the foot; legs and body are rigid. Always the right palm is extended to t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1907
Extent:
1 item

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