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11. L.R.298.b.2, 5(158)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(158)
Title:
Arikara Medicine Ceremony - Dance of the Fraternity. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of members of the Arikara medicine fraternity dancing in procession in the open air. 'After each order has performed its dance about the sacred cedar, the entire fraternity, group by group, emerges from the lodge and dances.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

12. L.R.298.b.2, 5(159)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(159)
Title:
The announcement - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of Bear's Teeth, a member of the Night order of the Arikara medicine fraternity, seen in a steeply angled perspective from the base of an earthen medicine lodge. 'Among the Missouri River Indians of the earthen lodges - the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara - the chiefs and priests made their an...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

13. L.R.298.b.2, 5(160)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(160)
Title:
The rush gatherer - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter-length full-face outdoor portrait of an Arikara woman, holding a knife and a sheave of rushes, with wind-blown rush plants growing in the background. 'The Arikaras, as well as their close neighbors, the Mandan and Hidatsa, made many mats of rushes. These were used largely as floor ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

14. L.R.298.b.2, 5(161)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(161)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - the Bears. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of six Arikara members of the Bear medicine order standing in a line in the open air, in the midst of a recitation. 'After dancing around the sacred cedar, the members of the Bear order halt and complete their songs before reentering the medicine-lodge.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

15. L.R.298.b.2, 5(162)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(162)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - dance of the Black-Tail Deer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Close view of four members of the Arikara medicine fraternity performing the 'dance of the black-tail deer' in the open air, next to a sacred tree. 'The two dark figures are painted in a manner suggesting the elk, the others the antelope.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

16. L.R.298.b.2, 5(163)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(163)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - the Ducks. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Close view of three members of the Arikara medicine fraternity, captured in full-length profile as they dance in the open air. 'Three members of the medicine fraternity, painted to represent ducks and holding the rushes among which waterfowl rest, in their dance around the sacred cedar.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

17. L.R.298.b.2, 5(164)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(164)
Title:
Arikara medicine fraternity - the prayer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of members of the Arikara medicine fraternity crouched in a line on the ground out of doors, seen from behind and level with the horizon, with a sacred cedar tree beyond. 'This impressive picture from the Arikara medicine ceremony shows the priests in a semi-circle about the sacred cedar.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

18. L.R.298.b.2, 5(165)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(165)
Title:
Arikara girl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of an Arikara girl. 'A type produced by several generations of tribal and racial intermarriage. The subject is considered by her tribesmen to be a pure Arikara, but her features point unmistakably to a white ancestor, and there is little doubt that the blood o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

19. L.R.298.b.2, 5(166)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(166)
Title:
Arikara chief. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length full-face standing portrait of Sitting Bear, an Arikara chief, taken outside on a grassy plain. 'The tribal chief, Sitting Bear, is portrayed in full costume of scalp-shirt, leggings, and moccasins, all of deerskin, and eagle-feather war-bonnet and coup-stick.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

20. L.R.298.b.2, 5(167)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(167)
Title:
No Bear - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of No Bear, an Atsina. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.182: 'Born in 1841 near the mouth of Marias river. He counted a third coup when, at the age of fifteen, he first accompanied a war-party. On another raid a solitary India...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

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