Arikara medicine ceremony - dance of the Black-Tail Deer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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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.'
On the war-path - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Close view of an Atsina war-party riding across a vast plain. 'These grim-visaged old warriors made a thrilling picture as they rode along, breaking out now and then into a wild song of the chase or the raid.'
The scout's report - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a party of Atsina warriors standing on a grassy plain with their horses, with their war-leader and a gesturing scout in the foreground. 'The Chief of the scouts, returning to the main party, tells in the vigorous and picturesque language so natural to the Indians what he has seen and exp...
The land of the Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a party of Atsina riding in a line through a wide plains landscape. The location is not identified but Curtis comments in volume 5 of The North American Indian (p.104): 'Whether the Atsina reached their historical habitat in northern Montana prior to the arrival of the Blackfeet in that ...
Awaiting the scout's return - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a group of Atsina warriors, seen standing in profile in a line on a grassy plain, with their horses behind them and hills in the distance. 'The war-party sent scouts in advance, who kept a constant lookout for the enemy. From time to time they returned to the main party to report, and wh...