Trending Now - Rare Photos Capture Native American Life In The Early 1900s
A group of Navajo in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1904
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Sioux chiefs, 1905
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An Apsaroke mother and child, 1908
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Luzi, of the Papago tribe, 1907
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A Qagyuhl woman wears a fringed Chilkat blanket and a mask representing a deceased relative who had been a shaman, 1914
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Hakalahl, a Nakoaktok chief, 1914
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A Kwakiutl gatherer hunts abalones in Washington, 1910
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Piegan girls gather goldenrod, 1910
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A Qahatika girl, 1907
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A young member of the Apache tribe, c. 1910
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Eskadi, of the Apache tribe, 1903
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Kwakiutl people in canoes in British Columbia, 1914
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Kwakiutl people in canoes in British Columbia, 1914
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A Kwakiutl wedding party arrives in canoes, 1914
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A Kwakiutl shaman performs a religious ritual, 1914
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A Koskimo man dressed as Hami (“dangerous thing”) during a Numhlim ceremony, 1914
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A Qagyuhl dancer dressed as Paqusilahl (“man of the ground embodiment”), 1914
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A Qagyuhl man dressed as a bear, 1914
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Qagyuhl dancers, 1914
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Nakoaktok dancers wear Hamatsa masks in a ritual, 1914
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An Apache man, C. 1910
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Hollow Horn Bear, a Brulé man, 1907
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A Tewa girl, 1906
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An Apache woman reaps grain, c. 1910
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A Mariposa man on the Tule River Reservation, 1924
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A Hidatsa man with a captured eagle, 1908
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A Nootka man aims a bow and arrow, 1910
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Piegan tepees, 1910
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A Sioux hunter, 1905
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A Kwakiutl shaman, 1914
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A Kwakiutl man wearing a mask depicting a man transforming into a loon, 1914
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An Apsaroke man on horseback, 1908
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A Klamath chief stands on a hill above Crater Lake, Oregon, 1923
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ron Breast, a Piegan man, 1900
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Black Eagle, an Assiniboin man, 1908
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Nayenezgani, a Navajo man, 1904
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A Kwakiutl person dressed as a forest spirit, Nuhlimkilaka, (“bringer of confusion”), 1914
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A Hupa woman, 1923
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Mowakiu, a Tsawatenok man, 1914
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Piegan chiefs, 1900
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Vash Gon, a Jicarrilla man, c. 1910
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The Hopi Maiden, 1905
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A Jicarrilla girl, c. 1910
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A Zuni woman, 1903
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Iahla, also known as “Willow,” of the Taos Pueblo, 1905
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A Papago woman, 1907
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A Hupa spear fisherman watches for salmon, 1923
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A Maricopa woman, 1907
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Okuwa-Tsire, also known as “Cloud Bird,” of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1903
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A Maricopa woman with arrow-brush stalks, 1907
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An Apsaroke shaman, 1908
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A Cahuilla woman, 1924
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A Kwakiutl chief’s daughter, 1910
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A Kutenai duck hunter, 1910
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Medicine Crow, of the Apsaroke tribe, 1908
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A Wishran girl, 1910
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Nesjaja Hatali, Navajo medicine man, 1904
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Members of the Qagyuhl tribe dance to restore an eclipsed moon, c. 1910
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Walpi maidens, 1906
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Indian woman holding rushes, 1908
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Crow encampment with tipis, tents, wagons, horses and men as seen from the distant shore of the river, 1908
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Mohave woman, 1903
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Apache girl and papoose, 1903
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Maricopa child, 1907
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At the old well of Acoma, 1904
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A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl, 1923
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The primitive artists-Paviotso, 1924
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Two Dakota men playing hand drums outside of a tipi, 1908
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Apsaroke man wearing medicine hawk headdress, 1908
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Group of Arikara women. 1908
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Skokomish couple outside house made of reed mats, one seated beside canoe that has been pulled onto the riverbank, the other standing holding a paddle, 1913
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Navajos, 1905
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A dancer kisses the grandfather, 1908
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Navajo man bedecked in hemlock boughs and mask of a clown associated with the mischievous rain god Tonenili, 1905
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Hopi bridal costume, 1900
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Navajo man, 1904
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Apache woman, 1906
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A Cahuilla child, 1905
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Kominaka dancer, 1910
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Spearing salmon, 1923
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Mnainak, a Yakima chief, 1910
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