The North American Indian. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina. [portfolio of large plates supplementing volume V]. Photographer(s): Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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.'
Assiniboin boy - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders half-profile portrait of Assiniboin Boy, an Atsina. 'The head-band, so commonly used by many tribes of the Southwest, notably the Apache and Navaho, is often worn in the Northwest. A biographical sketch of Assiniboin Boy appears in Volume V, page 180.'
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...
Atsina warriors. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Close view of a group of Atsina men on horseback. Gathered in a circle with a flat plains horizon in the distance, they are seen from a low perspective.