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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "The Kalispel, who now number about a hundred, are scattered along the eastern side of the Pend d'Oreille river in eastern Wash... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Spokane river, from a short distance below its head in Coeur d'Alene lake to its confluence with the Columbia, flows through t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of a Hesquiat woman. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "This contented young woman wears a nose-ring and a labret. Her waterproof hooded parka is made of intestinal parchment." A hea... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of a woman, man, and child. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "A biographical sketch of this subject is given in Volume IV, page 204." A waist-up portrait of a man in profile. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Little Plume with his son Yellow Kidney occupies the position of honor, the space at the rear opposite the entrance. The pictu... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | American Indians sitting near dwellings at the edge of a body of water. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Picturing not only the individual but a characteristic member of the tribe — disdainful, energetic, self-reliant." A head and ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "A wonderfully scenic spot is this in northeastern Arizona, in the heart of the Navaho country — one of their strongholds, in f... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "A representative type of the Mohave men." From "The North American Indian," the multi-volume set in which Curtis attempted to ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "The Chinookan tribes on the Columbia obtained their canoes for the greater part from the coast tribes of Washington. The woman... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "The basketry of the Karok does not differ from that of the Hupa and the Yurok. The process is always twining, and the usual ma... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "A Hupa youth is waiting with poised spear for the shadowy outline of a salmon lurking in a quiet pool and gathering its streng... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for a program at the [Kafka] Memorial Union. Text inlaid in ghostly image reads, "Quixote presents: A Phenomenological rout featuring t... |
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