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21. L.R.298.b.2, 5(163)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(163)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - the Ducks. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Close view of three members of the Arikara medicine fraternity, captured in full-length profile as they dance in the open air. 'Three members of the medicine fraternity, painted to represent ducks and holding the rushes among which waterfowl rest, in their dance around the sacred cedar.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

22. L.R.298.b.2, 5(164)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(164)
Title:
Arikara medicine fraternity - the prayer. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of members of the Arikara medicine fraternity crouched in a line on the ground out of doors, seen from behind and level with the horizon, with a sacred cedar tree beyond. 'This impressive picture from the Arikara medicine ceremony shows the priests in a semi-circle about the sacred cedar.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

23. L.R.298.b.2, 5(159)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(159)
Title:
The announcement - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of Bear's Teeth, a member of the Night order of the Arikara medicine fraternity, seen in a steeply angled perspective from the base of an earthen medicine lodge. 'Among the Missouri River Indians of the earthen lodges - the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara - the chiefs and priests made their an...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

24. L.R.298.b.2, 5(158)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(158)
Title:
Arikara Medicine Ceremony - Dance of the Fraternity. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of members of the Arikara medicine fraternity dancing in procession in the open air. 'After each order has performed its dance about the sacred cedar, the entire fraternity, group by group, emerges from the lodge and dances.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

25. L.R.298.b.2, 5(151)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(151)
Title:
Four Horns - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Four Horns, an Arikara. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.179: 'Born in 1847 near Fort Berthold. At the age of fourteen he accompanied a war-party against the Sioux. Two years later he enlisted as scout at Fort Buford; he ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

26. L.R.298.b.2, 5(167)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(167)
Title:
No Bear - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of No Bear, an Atsina. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.182: 'Born in 1841 near the mouth of Marias river. He counted a third coup when, at the age of fifteen, he first accompanied a war-party. On another raid a solitary India...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

27. L.R.298.b.2, 5(168)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(168)
Title:
Eagle Child - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length full-face portrait of Eagle Child, an Atsina. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.181. 'Born in 1862 east of the Little Rockies. He first followed the war-path when twenty years of age, but gained no honors on this occasion. His next experience was in a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

28. L.R.298.b.2, 5(183)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(183)
Title:
Otter Robe - Atsina. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length full-face portrait of Otter Robe, an Atsina. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.182: 'Born in 1851 near Fort Benton. When sixteen years of age he joined a war-party against the Piegan, but on this first expedition he gained no honors. On another raid a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

29. L.R.298.b.2, 5(150)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(150)
Title:
Bear's Belly - Arikara. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length full-face portrait of Bear's Belly, a member of the Arikara medicine fraternity, depicted wrapped in his sacred bear-skin. His biography is given in volume 5 of The North American Indian, p.180: 'Born in 1847 at Fort Clark, in the present North Dakota. He had had no experience in wa...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

30. L.R.298.b.2, 5(161)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 5(161)
Title:
Arikara medicine ceremony - the Bears. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of six Arikara members of the Bear medicine order standing in a line in the open air, in the midst of a recitation. 'After dancing around the sacred cedar, the members of the Bear order halt and complete their songs before reentering the medicine-lodge.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 item

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