PCT4263767: An idle hour - A moment of tranquility: Piegan Indians sitting on the edge of a body of water. 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
PCT4263775: Wishham girl. This girl is dressed in a heavy suede dress adorned with pearls. The indispensable ornamental attribute of a well-born person was the dental shell in the nasal septum. The headdress is made of shells, shells and junk beads as well as Chinese coins. This type of headdress was worn on special occasions by puberous and not yet married girls. Photo taken from volume 8 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
PCT4263787: Going to camp. An apsaroke Indian carrying wood in the snow, in a small winter camp near a creek in the Pryor Mountains, 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
PCT4263832: Sioux chiefs. Very often, two or three men formed a war troop and left for weeks or months. Sometimes they'd come back with scalps, horses or women. Then, whatever its size, the war troop knew defeat and there was no survivor to tell the worried women and children the story of the disaster. 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
PCT4263859: Apsaroke war group. The warrior on the right holds the curved stick of one of the tribal military organizations. This stick was planted in the ground at the decisive moment of the fight, like a banner behind which its wearer pledged not to retreat. 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
PCT4263867: Tearing Lodge, Piegan. Pinokiminuksh is one of the few Piegan advances in age whose memory has remained faithful. Did in 1835 in the present-day Montana su Sud, it emerged as a valuable source of information. The buffalo skin hat is part of his war suit: it was made and worn by order of a spirit of which he saw. 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. ©Gusman/Leemage, Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263871: A Grizzly-Bear Brave, Piegan. At least two of the Piegan War Societies (the Braves and All Brave Dogs) included two men known as the Grizzly-Bear Brave. During the festivities, it was their responsibility to provide meat to their companions, whatever they buy it. Their behaviour and the expression of their faces justified their names and, in the course of their official duties, they were truly feared by others. 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. ©Gusman/Leemage, Curtis, Edward Sheriff (1868-1952) / Bridgeman Images
PCT4263881: Old Person, Piegan. Young men do not miss any occasion of public festivities to put on the clothes of their warrior father. 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
PCT4263897: Hight Hawk. Warrior's set dresses for a great occasion: leather shirt, leggings, moccasins, pipe sheath (all embroidered with piquants of pig-epic), war headdress with eagle feathers, baton with stone head, with a scalp. Hight Hawk exercises over the Sioux Brules the authority of a historical leader. 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