Yellow Kidney - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Yellow Kidney, a Piegan. 'The portrait shows Apuyotoksi ("light-colored kidney") wearing a wolf-skin war-bonnet.'
A grizzly-bear brave - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length full-face portrait of a Piegan warrior, standing wrapped in an animal pelt on a grassy hill. 'At least two of the Piegan Warrior societies (the Braves and the All Brave Dogs) included in their membership two men known as Grizzly-bear Braves. It was their duty, at the time of the soci...
A medicine-pipe - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length full-face portrait of a seated Piegan displaying a medicine pipe. 'Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and fur. Each one is believed to have been obtained long ago in some supernatural manner, as r...
Weasel Tail - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length full-face portrait of Weasel Tail, a Piegan, wearing a war-bonnet. 'The accoutrement of this brave (Apohsuyis) comprises the well-known war-bonnet of eagle-feathers and weasel-skins, deerskin shirt, bone necklace, grizzly-bear claw necklace, and tomahawk-pipe of Hudson's Bay Company ...