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
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...
Kalispel type. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Half-length half-profile portrait of an unnamed Kalispel, holding a feather. Curtis wrote: 'The Kalispel lived in northeastern Washington, in the valley of Clarks fork (Pend d'Oreille river) of the Columbia, from about the place where the Idaho boundary crosses the stream down to Box cañon.' (Th...
Nespilim man. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of an unnamed Nespilim man. 'The Nespilim were a small Salishan band living north of the Columbia in the valley of Nespilim river. Few representatives of the tribe survive.'
Nespilim girl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Full-length full-face portrait of an unnamed Nespilin girl, wearing a floor-length light-coloured robe and holding a zigzag-striped bag, standing beside a stream with a backdrop of foliage. 'In the early years of the nineteenth century various explorers noted that the bands dwelling along the up...