Piopio-maksmaks — Wallawalla. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait: 'Piopio-maksmaks, quoted in volume VIII, pages 20-21, is the son of the Piopio-maksmaks who as principal governor of the Wallawalla negotiated a treaty with Governor Isaac I. Stevens in the Walla Walla valley in 1855. The father was killed while a captive o...
Umatilla maid. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Half-length full-face portrait of an Umatilla girl: 'Two distinct cultural areas are represented in the costume of this damsel. The familiar beadworked, deerskin dress is an acquisition from the plains culture, while the basketry hat and the shell-bead necklace hail from the Pacific slope. Note ...
Innocence — Umatilla. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Full-length portrait of a young Umatilla girl, leaning against a tree: 'Few aspects of Indian life are more interesting to the casual visitor than the demeanour of the children, with their coy basfulness, their mischievous, sparkling eyes, their doubtful hesitation just the other side of friendl...
Holiday trapping — Cayuse. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Portrait of a young woman on horseback: 'Wealthy members of the tribes living on the Umatilla reservation in Oregon spare no expense in bedecking themselves and their mounts on gala occasions. The articles of adornment are usually of deerskin, or of commercial blankets on which designs are worke...
The fisherman — Wishham. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Portrait of a man perched on a boulder beside the Columbia River, fishing with a net: 'Along the middle course of the Columbia at places where the abruptness of the shore and the up-stream set off an eddy make such method possible, salmon were taken, and still are taken, by means of a long-handl...