Weasel Tail - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Half-length full-face portrait of Weasel Tail, a Piegan, wearing a war-bonnet. 'The accoutrement of this brave (Apohsuyis) comprises the well-known war-bonnet of eagle-feathers and weasel-skins, deerskin shirt, bone necklace, grizzly-bear claw necklace, and tomahawk-pipe of Hudson's Bay Company ...
Old Person - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Three-quarter-length half-profile portrait of Old Person, a Piegan, wearing an elaborate feather headdress. 'The young men eagerly seize every occasion of public festivity to don the habiliments of their warrior fathers.'
Iron Breast - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length full-face portrait of Iron Breast, a Piegan, dressed in fur, feathers, horns and bells, standing against a dark backcloth. 'The picture illustrates the costume of a member of the Bulls (see Volume VI, page 28), an age society for many years obsolete.'
A Piegan dandy. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Half-length full-face portrait of a young Piegan man displaying a fan-like hairstyle, painted face, bead necklaces, and holding a feather shield in front of him.
Two Moons - Cheyenne. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Two Moons, a Cheyenne chief. 'Two Moons was one of the Cheyenne chiefs at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876, when Custer's command was annihilated by a force of Sioux and Cheyenne.'
View of a river in a prairie landscape in Montana, with three Piegan on horseback in the foreground. 'This scene on Two Medicine river near the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains is typical of the western portion of the Piegan country, where the undulating upland prairies become rougher an...
Sun Dance encampment - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Distant view of many Piegan tipis on a plain. 'This tribal assembly for the Sun Dance of 1898 comprised about two hundred and thirty tipis, including a number of visiting Blackfeet and Bloods from Canada. The scene is on the Piegan reservation in northern Montana, near Browning.'
A grizzly-bear brave - Piegan. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Full-length full-face portrait of a Piegan warrior, standing wrapped in an animal pelt on a grassy hill. 'At least two of the Piegan Warrior societies (the Braves and the All Brave Dogs) included in their membership two men known as Grizzly-bear Braves. It was their duty, at the time of the soci...