Piegan encampment. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of Piegan tipis erected on a plain, with mountains on the distant horizon. 'The picture not only presents a characteristic view of an Indian camp on an uneventful day, but also emphasizes the grand picturesqueness of the Piegan, living as they do almost under the shadow of the towering Rock...
Cheyenne profile. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a Cheyenne, identified by Curtis in the caption accompanying the preceding print (no.211) as 'Wako'yami ("his horse bobtailed") of the Northern Cheyenne'.
Bringing the sweat-lodge willows - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Inscription: At lower left: CURTIS Close view of Piegan horsemen riding across a plain, holding willow branches aloft. 'Young horseman are coming toward the Sun-dance encampment with willows for the faster's sweat-lodge, as described in Volume VI, page 43.'
Painted lodges - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Close view of decorated Piegan tipis on a plain. 'Symbolically painted tipis are frequently observed among the Piegan. Sometimes incidents in the owner's career, especially as a warrior, are depicted, but more often as in this picture, the painting is conventional, and imitative of a tipi seen b...
White Calf - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders half-profile portrait of White Calf, a Piegan. Curtis cites a biographical sketch of White Calf by the ethnographer George Bird Grinnell: 'Unistai-poka (White Buffalo-calf) died at Washington in 1903. He was then almost eighty years of age, and had been the chief of his tribe ...
A medicine-pipe - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Full-length full-face portrait of a seated Piegan displaying a medicine pipe. 'Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and fur. Each one is believed to have been obtained long ago in some supernatural manner, as r...