Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of a Pima Indian woman, bearing a basket on her head: 'A representative Pima woman of middle age.'
Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of a Papago girl: 'A particularly fine-looking Papago girl of as nearly pure blood as can be found in the region. The northern Piman tribes have been in direct contact with Spanish people for more than two centuries. Much of the ...
Lúzi — Papago. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Lúzi, a Papago woman, bearing a basket on her head: 'The Papago women always carry their burdens on, or supported from, their heads. When the burden — be it basket, pottery, or a box — has a flat or a rounded bottom, the ring ...
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...