A Navaho smile, 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
A Navaho smile, 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., Title from item., Curtis no. 1020., Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection ., Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 183., Published in: "American Indians" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, Indians of North America, Clothing & dress, 1900-1910. , Navajo Indians, Clothing & dress, 1900-1910. , Women, Clothing & dress, 1900-1910.
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