Body Paint Collection

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

Costumes de Différents Pays, Indien du Coromandel, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Indien du Coromandel, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Homme Acadien, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Homme Acadien, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Sauvagesse de la Terre de Feu, c1797. Creator: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Sauvagesse de la Terre de Feu, c1797

The Clowns, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Clowns, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927

Priests passing before the pipe-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Priests passing before the pipe-Cheyenne, c1910. Group of Cheyenne people, most seated in a semicircle during sun dance ceremony, woman in foreground is holding pipe, buffalo skull in foreground

Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara Medicine Ceremony-The Ducks, c1908. Photo shows three Arikara men, members of the medicine fraternity, dancing, painted to represent ducks and holding rushes

Offering pipe to the skull-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Offering pipe to the skull-Cheyenne, c1910. Woman offering pipe to buffalo skull, during sun dance ceremony

Offering the pipe to the Earth-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Offering the pipe to the Earth-Cheyenne, c1910. Cheyenne woman holding pipe close to earth, during the sun dance ceremony

Yeibichai war gods, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Yeibichai war gods, 1904, c1905. Photograph shows three Natives: Tonenili, Tobadzischini, and Nayenezgani, in ceremonial dress, photographed against dark rock background

Nayenezgani-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nayenezgani-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Indian, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing dark leather mask, fur ruff, cloth girdle, silver concho belt and necklaces

Nayenezgani-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nayenezgani-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Indian, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing dark mask, fur ruff, paint on torso

Zahadolzha-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Zahadolzha-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing leather mask with basket cap, fur ruff, torso painted with white lines

Haschezhini-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Haschezhini-Navaho, 1904, c1905. Photo shows a Native American man, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing dark leather mask, fur ruff, torso painted with black and white splotches

Snake dancer in costume, c1900. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Snake dancer in costume, c1900. Hopi snake dancer, full-length portrait, standing, facing front

Nayenezgani, c1904. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nayenezgani, c1904. Nayenezgani, a Navajo deity, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing body paints and other adornments

Tobadzischini-Navaho, c1904. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tobadzischini-Navaho, c1904. Navajo man in ceremonial dress as Tobadzischini, Yebichai war god

Honovi-Walpi snake priest, with Totkya Day painting, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Honovi-Walpi snake priest, with Totkya Day painting, c1910. Hopi snake priest, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front

Sun dance pledgers-Cheyenne, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sun dance pledgers-Cheyenne, c1910. Two young men in ceremonial paint

Medicine man of the Worgaia, central Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Feast march ceremony, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Feast march ceremony, c1905. Several shirtless Apache men, standing with back to camera, wearing feathered headbands, and with body paintings

Snake priest, c1900. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Snake priest, c1900. Native American man seated, three-quarter-length, facing front

Zahadolzhá-Navaho, c1904. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Zahadolzha-Navaho, c1904. A Navajo man, full-length, in ceremonial dress including mask and body paint

Wolf-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wolf-Apsaroke, c1908. Wolf, an Apsaroke man, seated, facing front, holding staff, wearing shell necklaces and body paint

Seated Female Figure Holding a Bowl on Her Lap, 100 B. C. / A. D. 300. Creator: Unknown
Seated Female Figure Holding a Bowl on Her Lap, 100 B.C./A.D. 300

Figure of a Seated Female, 100 B. C. / A. D. 500. Creator: Unknown
Figure of a Seated Female, 100 B.C./A.D. 500

Seated Joined Couple, 200 B. C. / A. D. 300. Creator: Unknown
Seated Joined Couple, 200 B.C./A.D. 300

Vessel in the Form of a Figure with Geometric Face and Body Paint, 500 B. C. / A. D. 200
Vessel in the Form of a Figure with Geometric Face and Body Paint, 500 B.C./A.D. 200

Female Figure with Bold, Geometric Face and Body Paint, 200 / 100 B. C. Creator: Unknown
Female Figure with Bold, Geometric Face and Body Paint, 200/100 B.C

Beaker in the Form of a Seated Female with Tatoos and Body Paint, 180 B. C. / A. D. 500
Beaker in the Form of a Seated Female with Tatoos and Body Paint, 180 B.C./A.D. 500

Wolf - Apsaroke, 1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wolf - Apsaroke, 1908. [Native American man of the northwestern United States, wearing shell necklaces and body paint]. Photogravure, plate 142 from " The North American Indian

Nouvelle-Guinee. Danse Des Papous Barioles, (Papua New Guinea. Tribal Papuan Dance), 1900. From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900 ]

Medicine man, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
Medicine man, Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Mendicancy adopted in the name of Vishnu, India, 1922. A mendicant is a monk who is a member of an order that is not allowed to own property and is therefore entirely dependent on charity

Mackabarang, c1803. A native of New South Wales and known in the Colony by the name of Broken Bay Jack

Native Troopers Dispersing A Camp, Australia, 1886. Artist: Frank P Mahony
Native Troopers Dispersing A Camp, Australia, 1886. An aboriginal man being chased away from his camp during the colonisation of Australia

The Source, 1926. Artist: Etienne Dinet
The Source, 1926

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