Edward S. Curtis - Image Gallery

Image Gallery

• Canyon de Chelly – Navajo. Seven riders on horseback and dog trek against background of canyon cliffs, 1904

• Apache Scout, c.1900s

• Apache, Morning bath, c. 1907

• A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl--Hupa, c. 1923. Hupa man with spear, standing on rock midstream, in background, fog partially obscures trees on mountainsides.

• Navajo medicine man – Nesjaja Hatali, c. 1907. Description by Edward S. Curtis: A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Cañon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied – one in Cañon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant.

• White Man Runs Him, c.1908. Crow scout serving with George Armstrong Custer’s 1876 expeditions against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne that culminated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

• The old-time warrior: Nez Percé, c.1910. Nez Percé man, wearing loin cloth and moccasins, on horseback.

• Crow's Heart, Mandan, c.1908

• Mandan lodge, North Dakota, c. 1908.

• Food caches, Hooper Bay, Alaska, c.1929

• Mandan man overlooking the Missouri River, c.1908

• Fishing with a Gaff-hook--Paviotso or Paiute, c.1924

• Mandan girls gathering berries, c. 1908

• Mandan hunter with buffalo skull, c. 1909

• Zuni Girl with Jar, c. 1903. Head-and-shoulders portrait of Zuni girl with pottery jar on her head.

• Navajo Flocks, c.1904. Description by Edward S. Curtis: The Navaho might as well be called the "Keepers of Flocks". Their sheep are of the greatest importance to their existence, and in the care and management of their flocks they exhibit a thrift not to be found in the average tribe.

• Navajo Sandpainting, c.1907. Description by Edward S. Curtis: One of the four elaborate dry-paintings or sand altars employed in the rites of the Mountain Chant, a Navaho medicine ceremony of nine days' duration.

• Navajo Weaver, c. 1907. Description by Edward S. Curtis: The Navaho-land blanket looms are in evidence everywhere. In the winter months they are set up in the hogans, but during the summer they are erected outdoors under an improvised shelter, or, as in this case, beneath a tree. The simplicity of the loom and its product are here clearly shown, pictured in the early morning light under a large cottonwood.

• Geronimo – Apache (1905), Description by Edward S. Curtis: This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March, 1905. According to Geronimo's calculation he was at the time seventy-six years of age, thus making the year of his birth 1829. The picture was taken at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the day before the inauguration of President Roosevelt, Geronimo being one of the warriors who took part in the inaugural parade at Washington.

• Navaho medicine-man, c. 1904, (with 1913 signature)

• Boys in kayak, Nunivak, 1930

• Cheyenne maiden,1930.

• Hopi mother, 1922

• Hopi girl, 1922