Tobadzischini Navaho, Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures Memory": Portfolio of the North American Indian. From the 1890s to the 1930s, Edward S. Curtis photographed approximately eighty different Native American groups, including their traditional clothing, crafts, and homes. He published a twenty-eight volume work, the North American Indian, which embraced the romantic notion he and other white Americans held about the vanquished Indian. This image of Tobadzischini,(war god), a participant in the Yebechai dance a nine-day ritual combining ritual and medicine still practiced today
Tobadzischini Navaho, Caption label from exhibit "American Treasures Memory": Portfolio of the North American Indian. From the 1890s to the 1930s, Edward S. Curtis photographed approximately eighty different Native American groups, including their traditional clothing, crafts, and homes. He published a twenty-eight volume work, the North American Indian, which embraced the romantic notion he and other white Americans held about the vanquished Indian. This image of Tobadzischini,(war god), a participant in the Yebechai dance a nine-day ritual combining ritual and medicine still practiced today dates from a 1904 trip to the Southwest he made among the Navajo and Apache. It is unlikely that Curtis photographed the actual sacred ceremony, and this is probably a recreation, a practice to which he frequently resorted., LC no. 22., Edward S. Curtis., Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection .. Indians of North America, Clothing & dress, 1900-1910. , Indians of North America, Spiritual life, 1900-1910. , Navajo Indians, Clothing & dress, 1900-1910. , Navajo Indians, Spiritual life, 1900-1910.
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