The wood gatherer — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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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...
An Assiniboin camp. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of four tipis pitched in a line next to woodland: 'In making their camps the Indians often choose most picturesque spots.'
American Horse — Ogalala. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of American Horse, an Ogalala Sioux chief: 'This subject is one of the four chiefs whose election is described in Volume III, page 16. He died in December, 1908.'
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 ...
The mountain-sheep hunter — Sioux. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography View from a low perspective of a Sioux hunter, holding a gun and standing on a rocky ridge: 'Mountain-sheep, grazing in the most inaccessible parts of the Bad Lands, were sought only by the more ambitious hunters.'