The North American Indian. The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai. [portfolio of large plates supplementing volume VII]. Photographer(s): Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Ínashah - Yakima. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Half-length full-face portrait of Ínashah, a Yakima. 'Many of the elderly and middle-aged Yakima, especially those of what was formerly the ruling class, feel the same dislike and suspicion of the white man that moved their fathers, in the uprising of 1855, to attempt to expel the newcomers from...
Wife of Mnaínak - Yakima. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Half-length full-face portrait of a Yakima woman, identified as the wife of Mnaínak, wearing a heavily-beaded garment. 'Mnaínak, son of the former chief of the Columbia River village Skin at the north side of Celilo falls, is probably the man of greatest influence among the remnant of the cognat...
A mountain camp -Yakima. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of Yakima tipis standing amid woodland in Washington. 'The reservation of the Yakima rises from the level of the valley of the Yakima river to the lower range of mountains between that stream and the Columbia. In the glades of the mountains small parties pitch their tipis in the spring-time...
Flathead type. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of an unnamed Flathead man. 'Probably the Indian does not live in whose veins does not flow the blood of more than one tribe. The Flatheads are unusually composite, and the original of the portrait here presented, while as good a type as can be found, no dou...