PCT4263769: Passing the cliff, winter scene. Apsaroke Indians riding along a cliff in the snow on the Pryor River, Montana. Photo taken from volume 4 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263784: A dandy piegan. Around 1855, the young men began to make a parting in their hair from one temple to the other and to curl their back with a wand of a pre-heated rifle. Some made nates, others didn't. Photo taken from volume 6 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263786: The sheep-sheep hunter, Sioux. Mountain sheep, grazing in the most inaccessible parts of the Bad Lands, were sought only by the most daring hunters. Photo taken from volume 3 of Edward S. Curtis's encyclopedia (1868-1952) on North American Indians, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263793: Crow Eagle, Piegan. In ancient times of traditional customs and laws, they were based on customs, especially in their social relations, and these constraints were largely part of their religion. A custom worthy of attention is the intensive use of the pipe. When they lit it, they made it touch earth and put it to heaven in a silent prayer to the spirits. Every significant act of their day was preceded by this rite. Photo taken from volume 6 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263805: Two Leggings, Apsaroke, did about 1848. His visions did not give him great powers, and he was admitted to a secrete tobacco society by Bull Goes Hunting, who gave him his amulet made of a fossil or a coarsely sulptee stone in the form of a two-sided horse. Two Leggings thus became a great warlord. Photo taken from volume 4 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published., Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263860: Medicine Crow, Apsaroke. The falcon tied to its head is a way of carrying the symbol of its guardian spirit. Photo taken from volume 4 of the encyclopedia published by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) on the Indians of North America, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Between 1907 and 1930, 20 volumes were published. ©Gusman/Leemage, Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2929942: Ceremonial mask worn by a dancer portraying the hunter in Bella Bella mythology who killed the giant man-eating octopus, The dance was performed during Tluwulahu, a four day ceremony prior to the Winter Dance. Original title: 'Mask of the octopus hunter, Qagyuhl', photograph by Edward S. Curtis, November 13, 1914, Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images