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...
Havachách — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Havachách, a Maricopa woman: 'The Maricopa are a small tribe of Yuman stock living as neighbors of the Pima, chiefly in the valley of the Gila in southern Arizona, though a few make their home on the Salt River reservation eas...
Maricopa girl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of a Maricopa girl standing on a river bank, bearing a water pot on her head, and wearing a shawl drawn closely around her face: 'The young Maricopa women affect the Mexican more than the Indian dress; but they are by no means unpicturesque in th...
Mat Stams — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Mat Stams, a Maricopa man: 'This individual exhibits strongly the characteristics of the Yuman stock to which he belongs.'
Hipáh with arrow-brush — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length half-profile portrait of Hipáh, a Maricopa woman, kneeling in a field of arrow-brush and holding a sheaf of the crop in her arms: 'Arrow-brush is extensively used by the tribes of this region as a covering for their houses. In earlier time they lived in c...
By the canal — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a Maricopa woman seated on a river bank, holding a water pot: 'Earthen utensils of native manufacture are in general use among the Maricopa. Large jars are kept in the houses to be filled with a day's supply of water; smaller ones are used for conveying w...
Saguaro fruit gatherers — Maricopa. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Genre: Portrait Photography View of three Maricopa women in the desert next to a giant cactus, bearing wide baskets to collect its fruit: 'Like their Piman neighbours, the Maricopa gather large quantities of the fruit of the saguaro, or giant cactus, which they relish in its natural state as we...