Native American Photographs

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"Domestic scene"

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Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Image of a family of Kai-Vav-It Indians gathered under a cedar tree. One woman holds up her baby who is strapped to a cradleboard.

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"Wu-nav-ai gathering seeds"

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Stereograph. Photographed by Jack Hillers for the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado Valley, 1874. Portrait of Wu-nav-ai, a Mo-A-Pa-Ri-At Paiute Indian woman, seen gathering seeds. She wears a full length skirt, is bare-chested,…

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"Jack’s family—Lizzy (young wife), Mary (his sister), old wife & daughter"

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Albumen print. Portrait of three Modoc women and a young Modoc girl. The two younger women sit to the left, and the older woman sits and holds her daughter, who stands in front of her.

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"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.…

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"Ka-ni."

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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 Ka-ni wearing a fringed skirt and covering her breasts with her proper right arm.

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Loots-tow-oots (Rattlesnake), and wife

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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. 594.Albumen print. Portrait of Pawnee Skeedee couple Loots-tow-oots and an unnamed woman.…

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