Native American Photographs

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  • Tags: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925

"The old gamblers."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of four Nu-a-gun-tit men seen sitting together on the ground, their bows and arrows scattered around them.

"E-nu-ints-i-gaip or One of the ancients"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of Nu-a-gun-tit man E-nu-ints-i-gaip seen sitting on the ground holding arrows in his lap.

"Kai-ar."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of Nu-a-gun-tit woman Kai-ar wearing buckskin clothing and standing near bushes and tall grass.

"Si-gav and An-ti-naints"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of Nu-a-gun-tit man and woman Si-gav and An-ti-naints. An-ti-naints places her hand on Si-gav's shoulder.

"An-ti-naints, Pu-tu-siv and Wi-chuts, sitting."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of three young Nu-a-gun-tit women seen sitting on the ground.

"An-ti-naints, Pu-tu-siv and Wi-chut"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of three young Nu-a-gun-tit women seen standing on top of a piece of buckskin cloth.

"The brother chiefs."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Group portrait of two Nu-a-gun-tit men and their wives. The two men are seen standing, and two women are sitting in front of them.…

"Met on the road"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of four Mo-A-Pa-Ri-At men on horseback.

"Five and three are eight"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a Mo-A-Pa-Ri-At Paiute man seen holding up six fingers on his two hands as another man looks on. A third man sits on the…

"San-o-kuts."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Full length portrait of San-o-kuts, a Mo-A-Pa-Ri-At Paiute man, wearing fringed clothing.