The Chimakum lived in Washington between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay. Today, Chimakum are enrolled in three Federally recognized tribes. Curtis created a total of three (3) copper...
Plate 250 from portfolio 7 is titled “Embarking” and depicts a woman in a canoe pulled up to a rocky shore with a woman standing on the shoreline. Edward Curtis took this photograph near the southern end of Flathead lake in Montana where...
Basketry was a true form of expression for the women of the Klickitat tribe. “They spoke with their hands and made their deepest inner thoughts come to life,” says Jane Gargas of the Yakima Herald.
Laguna Pueblo is located in west-central New Mexico along I-40. When the transcontinental railroad came to New Mexico, it brought travelers directly to the doorsteps of the Laguna Pueblo. Clay pots...
Kalispel people are thought to have come from British Columbia, Canada. In the 18th century, Blackfeet people pushed them from the Great Plains to Pend d’Oreille River and Lake Pend Oreille. The town of Kalispell...
In volume 7, page 70 of The North American Indian – The Vanishing Race, you’ll find this photograph of a Flathead Mother. The Flathead originally lived in an area west of Billings, Montana extending to the continental divide...
Portfolio plate number 613 of “A Zuni Girl” was taken by Edward S. Curtis in 1903. Her hair is cut short and she is wearing a woven blanket. She is embellished in necklaces of various beads and squash blossoms as well as...
A pinch of cornmeal tossed into the air as an offering to the numerous deities of the Tewa, but especially to the sun, is the formality that begins the day and precedes innumerable acts of the most...
This photograph of a Klamath Native American was taken in 1923 on the edge of Crater Lake in Oregon. For many, Crater Lake was a spiritual place and regarded as an "abode to the Great Spirit." Due to several unique factors...
The head-dress is of the type common to the Klamath River tribes - a broad band of deerskin partially covered with a row of red scalps of woodpecker. The massive necklace of clam-shell beads indicates...
The Yurok canoe is a hollowed section of a redwood log. The aboriginal implements for canoe-making were a stone hammer and an elk-horn chisel for cutting the log and removing a number of slabs in order to...
