Resting in the harvest field — Qahátika. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of three Qahátika women, seated cross-legged in a field of cacti at the base of a rocky hill: 'About forty miles due south of the Pima reservation, in five small villages, one sees a type of the true desert Indian — the Qahátika. When or why they separated from...
Mohave water carrier. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length outdoor portrait of a Mohave woman, carrying a child on her hip and a water pot on her head. 'A Mohave mother on the bank of the Colorado river. The Mohave carry practically all burdens on their heads. Being unusually large and strongly built, the women t...
Quniáka — Mohave. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders, full-face portrait of Quniáka, a Mohave man; 'Although this pictures one of the best of his tribe, it serves as well to illustrate a man of the Age of Stone.'
Mósa — Mohave. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length full-face portrait of Mósa, a Mohave girl: 'It would be difficult to conceive of a more thorough aboriginal than this Mohave girl. Her eyes are those of the fawn of the forest, questioning the strange things of civilisation upon which it gazes for the fir...
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length profile portrait, turned to the left, of an unnamed Yuma man: 'Yuma mythology points to the vicinity opposite Fort Mohave, on the California side of the Colorado river, as having been the place of origin of the various Yuman tribes now found along the riv...