Native American Photographs

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Annie Stidham, Creek.

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Cabinet sized albumen print. Included in Thomas Porter's Synopsis of the flora of Colorado, Department of the Interior, U.S.G.S. Washington, D.C., 1874, and in W.H. Jackson's Descriptive catalogue of photographs of North American Indians, Department…

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Wife of Man Who Packs the Eagle, Cut Head Dakotas

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Cabinet sized albumen print. Included in W.H. Jackson's Descriptive catalogue of photographs of North American Indians, Department of the Interior, U.S.G.S., Washington, D.C., 1877, no. 294. "Squaw of the Man Who Packs the Eagle. Cut Head."Full…

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"U-Wa, wife of Chu-ar-um-peak, chief of the Kai-Vav-Its."

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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 a Kai-Vav-It woman wearing a long dress, standing against a large boulder.

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"Ku-ra-tu"

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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 a Kai Vav It woman standing in front of a large boulder wearing a fringed hide dress, with her proper right…

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"The empty cradle"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a Kai Vav It woman seen sitting on a stone with an empty cradleboard on the ground beside her.

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"Ku-ra-tu and Mu-pates"

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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 Kai Vav Its Ku-ra-tu and Mu-pates. Ku-ra-tu leans on a large boulder and Mu-pates leans against her. Both…

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

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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…

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"The basket maker."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874, Gift of R.C. Waterson, 1875. Image of an older Kai-Vav-It woman seen sitting beside a small tipi, weaving a basket.

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"Group of women in full dress."

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Photograph of a group of nine Kai-Vav-It women and girls.

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"The mother."

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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.

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