The Lower Columbia. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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View of a group of canoes paddling on the river: 'The Columbia near its mouth spreads in a broad estuary between shores now low and flat, and again bold and wooded. The conflict between winds, tides, and current sometimes raises seas that threaten even power-driven craft, and the natives who for...
Chief Joseph — Nez Percé. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait: 'The name of Chief Joseph is better known than that of any other Northwestern Indian. To him popular opinion has given the credit of conducting a remarkable strategic movement from Idaho to northern Montana in the flight of the Nez Percés in 1877. To what e...
Yellow Bull — Nez Percé. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Head-and-shoulder full-face portrait: 'As a member of the family which more than any other was responsible for precipitating the Nez Percé outbreak of 1877, Yellow Bull proved a source of much valuable information. His son Walaitifs was one of the three men who murdered the first white settlers ...
Night scout — Nez Percé. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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A low-key image, showing an Indian scout on horseback, silhouetted against a black sky. A heavily-reworked image, presumably taken in daylight, but with the sky bblacked out.
The fisherman — Wishham. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Portrait of a man perched on a boulder beside the Columbia River, fishing with a net: 'Along the middle course of the Columbia at places where the abruptness of the shore and the up-stream set off an eddy make such method possible, salmon were taken, and still are taken, by means of a long-handl...
Dip-netting in pools — Wishham. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
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Portrait of a young Indian drawing his net from the Columbia river: 'In the quiet pools along the rocky shore the salmon sometimes lie resting from their long journey up-stream. The experienced fisherman knows these spots, and by a deft movement of his net he takes his toll from each one.'