Head-and-shoulders left profile portrait of a Wichita man, wearing a war bonnet: 'The Wichita belong to the Caddoan linguistic family and in the earliest historical times lived in the Arkansas valley in the present Kansas. Here they were visited by Coronado and his force of Spaniards in 1541, in...
Henry — Wichita. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly Indian man, wearing spectacles: 'The native names of the Indians are often unpronounceable by untrained white people, who therefore apply such incongruous English names as this and the following.'
Cheyenne chief. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Full-length portrait of a Cheyenne chief, standing in the open and holding an eagle-feather fan in his left hand: 'The Cheyenne belong to the Algonquian linguistic family and therefore are related to the tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy and to the Arapaho of the north, and, much more remotely...
Esipermi — Comanche. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders right profile portrait of an elderly Comanche warrior: 'There were no more vigorous people among the Indians of the Plains than the Comanche, a Shoshonean tribe, related to the Shoshone and Bannock of Idaho, from which region they entered the northern plains and drifted ever s...