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Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845. Creator: George Caleb Bingham

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845. Creator: George Caleb Bingham
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. Artist: John Andrew & Son

Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. Artist: John Andrew & Son
Sitting Bear - Arikara, 1908. The Arikara are a semi-nomadic Native American tribe who lived on the plains of South Dakota. Their population was decimated by smallpox in the 1830s

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Before the storm, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Before the storm, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Before the storm, c1906. Four Apaches on horseback under storm clouds

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: An Arapahoe Boy, c. 1882. Creator: George de Forest Brush

An Arapahoe Boy, c. 1882. Creator: George de Forest Brush
An Arapahoe Boy, c. 1882

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Hinmatoowyalahtq it (Chief Joseph), 1879. Creator: Charles Milton Bell

Hinmatoowyalahtq it (Chief Joseph), 1879. Creator: Charles Milton Bell
Hinmatoowyalahtq it (Chief Joseph), 1879

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Deaf Bull, c. 1880. Creator: Laton Alton Huffman

Deaf Bull, c. 1880. Creator: Laton Alton Huffman
Deaf Bull, c. 1880. [Portrait of a chief of the Crow people from the Yellowstone River valley, western United States]. Gelatin silver print

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Mandan Indians, with Medicine Man in Bear Skin, c1875

Mandan Indians, with Medicine Man in Bear Skin, c1875. The Mandan traditionally lived along the banks of the Missouri River and two of its tributaries, the Heart and the Knife

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Native American shaman, 1841. Artist: Myers and Co

Native American shaman, 1841. Artist: Myers and Co
Native American shaman, 1841. A print from North American Indians, Wiley and Putnam, 1841

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: North Native American stone tomahawk

North Native American stone tomahawk. The wooden haft and binding are modern

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service

Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Tsianina, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882-1985), a singer and performer of Creek and Cherokee ancestry.

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Sketches in British Columbia: Indian village, Douglas Lake, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Sketches in British Columbia: Indian village, Douglas Lake, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Sketches in British Columbia: Indian village, Douglas Lake, 1864. Village '...inhabited by 200 or 300 people of the Quit-Squaws tribe, who, like all those to be met with on this route

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: An Indian with a flag of truce, in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, 1864. Creator: Unknown

An Indian with a flag of truce, in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, 1864. Creator: Unknown
An Indian with a flag of truce, in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by Lieutenant Edward C. Hall

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Creator: Joseph Austin Benwell

Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Creator: Joseph Austin Benwell
Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. C. L. Rowsell of Valparaiso, of indigenous people belonging to '...the half-civilised part of the native South

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Chief Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Chief Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Chief Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917 (date created or published later). A group of Native Americans inspecting the model weapons aboard the USS Recruit

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Lt. Wells Hawks (1870-1941), a member of the Navy's public relations team with "Chief Bald Eagle"

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Bald Eagle, Wells Hawks, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Bald Eagle, Wells Hawks, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Bald Eagle, Wells Hawks, 28 Jul 1917. Native American "Chief Bald Eagle" shaking hands with Lieutenant Wells Hawks (1870-1941)

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service

Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Bald Eagle on U.S.S. Recruit, 28 Jul 1917. Native American "Chief Bald Eagle" during his visit to the USS Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Square

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Eskimo, 1916. Creator: Lomen Brothers

Eskimo, 1916. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Eskimo, 1916.

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Eskimo woman, c1907, printed (1916?). Creator: Lomen Brothers

Eskimo woman, c1907, printed (1916?). Creator: Lomen Brothers
Eskimo woman, c1907, printed (1916?).

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Eskimo woman posing, 1915(?). Creator: Lomen Brothers

Eskimo woman posing, 1915(?). Creator: Lomen Brothers
Eskimo woman posing, 1915(?).

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Young Shoria Women with Children, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov

Young Shoria Women with Children, 1913. Creator: GI Ivanov
Young Shoria Women with Children, 1913. From a collection of 109 photographs taken during a 1913 topographic expedition to the Gornaia Shoria in the Altai region

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Two Eskimo women posing , c1903, printed (1927?). Creator: Unknown

Two Eskimo women posing , c1903, printed (1927?). Creator: Unknown
Two Eskimo women posing , c1903, printed (1927?).

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Oil skin jacket, made of bladder, 1929. Creator: Unknown

Oil skin jacket, made of bladder, 1929. Creator: Unknown
Oil skin jacket, made of bladder, 1929.

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Eskimo Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916. Creator: Unknown

Eskimo Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Eskimo Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916.

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Eskimos, 1916(?). Creator: Unknown

Eskimos, 1916(?). Creator: Unknown
Eskimos, 1916(?).

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Eskimo mother carrying a child on her back, 1916(?). Creator: Unknown

Eskimo mother carrying a child on her back, 1916(?). Creator: Unknown
Eskimo mother carrying a child on her back, 1916(?).

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Wooden home of Alaskan Eskimo family, (1929?). Creator: Unknown

Wooden home of Alaskan Eskimo family, (1929?). Creator: Unknown
Wooden home of Alaskan Eskimo family, (1929?).

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: A Seminole mother and children, c.between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Unknown

A Seminole mother and children, c.between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
A Seminole mother and children, c.between 1910 and 1920

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Costumes de Différents Pays, Sauvage Iroquois, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur

Costumes de Différents Pays, Sauvage Iroquois, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Sauvage Iroquois, c1797

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Costumes de Différents Pays, Iroquois Allant a la Decouverte, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Iroquois Allant a la Decouverte, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Iroquois Allant a la Decouverte, c1797

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Costumes de Différents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur

Costumes de Différents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Guerrier Iroquois, c1797

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Portaging a Canoe and Baggage, 1858

The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Portaging a Canoe and Baggage, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Portaging a Canoe and Baggage, 1858. Engraving from a photograph taken during...the expedition sent out last spring by the Canadian Government

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Ojibway Encampment near the Falls... 1858

The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Ojibway Encampment near the Falls... 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Ojibway Encampment near the Falls of the Rainy River, 1858. The Ojibways of the Lake of the Woods are the most warlike

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition - Ford of the Roseau River, and Indian Fish Weir

The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition - Ford of the Roseau River, and Indian Fish Weir, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition - Ford of the Roseau River, and Indian Fish Weir, 1858. The Roseau, or Reed-grass River

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Opening of the American Centennial Festival Exhibition: a Street in Philadelphia, 1876

Opening of the American Centennial Festival Exhibition: a Street in Philadelphia, 1876. Creator: W. J. P
Opening of the American Centennial Festival Exhibition: a Street in Philadelphia, 1876. The Great Exhibition at Philadelphia

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: My Patients Father; A Doctors Life among the North-American Indians, 1875. Creator: Unknown

My Patients Father; A Doctors Life among the North-American Indians, 1875. Creator: Unknown
My Patients Father; A Doctors Life among the North-American Indians, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Grand canoe reception given to the Prince of Wales on the St. Lawrence, 1860. Creator: Unknown

Grand canoe reception given to the Prince of Wales on the St. Lawrence, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Grand canoe reception given to the Prince of Wales on the St. Lawrence, 1860. Ten canoes...prettily painted and decorated, and each manned by twelve Indians of the Iriquois tribe

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: The Chief in full War Dress; A Doctors Life among the North-American Indians, 1875. Creator: Unknown

The Chief in full War Dress; A Doctors Life among the North-American Indians, 1875. Creator: Unknown
The Chief in full War Dress; A Doctors Life among the North-American Indians, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Scene of Trappers and Indians, before 1842. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller

Scene of Trappers and Indians, before 1842. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Scene of Trappers and Indians, before 1842. In the foreground, the woman is "cording a bale of dried meat, " while in the background, Captain William Drummond Stewart

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: A Hopi Man, 1921. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

A Hopi Man, 1921. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Hopi Man, 1921

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Sioux Indians in the Mountains, c1850. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller

Sioux Indians in the Mountains, c1850. Creator: Alfred Jacob Miller
Sioux Indians in the Mountains, c1850. In the spring of 1837, Captain William Drummond Stewart hired the Baltimorean Alfred Jacob Miller to accompany

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Northwest Coast, c.1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Northwest Coast, c.1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Northwest Coast, c.1927. Female portrait

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: 'Indians hunting Bison; Ocean to Ocean, the Pacific railroad, 1875. Creator: Frederick Whymper

'Indians hunting Bison; Ocean to Ocean, the Pacific railroad, 1875. Creator: Frederick Whymper
Indians hunting Bison; Ocean to Ocean, the Pacific railroad, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: The Three Chiefs-Piegan, Printed 1900. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

The Three Chiefs-Piegan, Printed 1900. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Three Chiefs-Piegan, Printed 1900

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Northwest Coast, c.1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Northwest Coast, c.1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Northwest Coast, c.1927. Man standing next to shelter of Northwest Coast Indians. From The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: 'Pawnee Camp; Ocean to Ocean, the Pacific railroad, 1875. Creator: Frederick Whymper

'Pawnee Camp; Ocean to Ocean, the Pacific railroad, 1875. Creator: Frederick Whymper
Pawnee Camp; Ocean to Ocean, the Pacific railroad, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London]

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Massacre of a mission party of the 'Alan Gardiner' by the natives at Woolya, Tierra del Fuego, 1860

Massacre of a mission party of the "Alan Gardiner" by the natives at Woolya, Tierra del Fuego, 1860. Engraving after a sketch by Mr. Havers

Background imageAmerican Indian Collection: Costumes de Différents Pays, Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Grand Chef de Guerriers Iroquois, c1797



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