Embarking - Kutenai. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a canoe with two Kutenai women on the rocky shore of a lake. 'The picture was made near the southern end of Flathead lake, in northwestern Montana.'
On the shore of the lake - Kutenai. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a Kutenai woman standing next to a canoe drawn up on the shore of a lake. 'The distant foothills of the Rocky mountains occupy the background.'
Kutenai camp. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of Kutenai tipis glimpsed through tall pines on the edge of a lake in Montana, with a canoe drawn up on the shore. 'The scene is a thinly wooded, sandy peninsula at the southern end of Flathead lake. Here the author's camp was pitched in 1909 during some weeks of investigation into the prim...
The rush gatherer - Kutenai. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a Kutenai in a canoe gathering rushes from a lake. 'Rushes gathered in swamps and in the shallows of the lakes were dried and strung together into mats, which primitively were used for lodge-covers, mattresses, canoe cushions, and for a variety of domestic purposes.'