Native American Photographs

Browse Items (41 total)

  • Tags: Children

"Breaking up camp."

223.jpg
Stereograph. Image of a Ute family seen gathered near a partially dismantled tipi. A boy is seen at far right holding a rifle.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"Ta-vo-kok-i, or the Circle Dance. (Summer costume.)"

036.jpg
Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Photograph of a group of Kai-Vav-It men, women and children, seen standing in a circle, wearing feathered headdresses. Their backs…

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"Pile of little Indians."

040.jpg
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of a group of young Kai-Vav-It children lying on the ground close together.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"One-little two-little three-little Injuns"

041.jpg
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of a group of young Kai-Vav-It children seen standing close together and embracing.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"The water carriers."

042.jpg
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of two young Kai-Vav-It girls seen with water vessels strapped to their backs. A third child stands beside them.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"The seed gatherers"

043.jpg
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of two young Kai-Vav-It children seen holding large flat bowls, with large baskets strapped to their backs.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"The mother."

044.jpg
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a Kai-Vav-It woman seen breastfeeding her young naked child. Another young child stands behind her.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"Proud of their grandson."

IMG_7730.JPG
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a young Kai-Vav-It boy and his grandparents outside of a thatched dwelling. The woman hands the boy a small feathered headpiece.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"Won-si-vu, or Young Antelope"

IMG_7732.JPG
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Full length portrait of Won-si-vu, or Young Antelope, an adolescent Kai-Vav-It girl. She wears fringed clothing and stands on a rock formation.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

"Won-si-vu and Ku-ra-tu"

IMG_7734.JPG
Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of Kai-Vav-It girls Won-si-vu and Ku-ra-tu sitting together on a rock. Ku-ra-tu has her arm around Won-si-vu.

Tags: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;