Woista — Cheyenne woman. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait: 'Remarkable strength of character is depicted in the features of this woman, and indeed in those of all the Cheyenne. Their former life was such that only the fittest could survive.'
Grass-house ceremony — Wichita. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of dance in progress, with spectators grouped in the shaded stand in the background. The rites attending the building of a grass-house are described in Volume XIX, pages 64-72.
Hotamitaye Society, Cheyenne sun-dance. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of group on horseback approaching the camera, the nearest figures carrying bundles of willow branches, as described by Curtis: 'The members of this and other bands, which were created by the Prophet of Cheyenne legend, go to the forest for the poles with which to build the lodge. While in t...
The old warrior — Arapaho. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length portrait of an Arapaho warrior, standing on prairie grassland: 'The Arapaho, of Algonquian stock like the Cheyenne, are divided into Northern and a Southern tribe, the former living on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming and the latter on the reservation assigned to them and the Ch...