Ceremony Collection (page 10)

Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San Ildefonso, New Mexico, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San Ildefonso, New Mexico, c1905

Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Night medicine men, 1908, c1908. Photo shows Arikara medicine ceremony with four night men dancing

Skidi and Wichita dancers, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Skidi and Wichita dancers, c1927. Indians in ceremonial dress

In a Blackfoot camp, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
In a Blackfoot camp, c1927. Blackfoot man, full-length portrait, standing in field, facing left, holding decorated sheaths; ceremonial bags suspended from tripod behind him

Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon, c1914. Several Kwakiutl people dancing in a circle around a smoking fire, in an effort to cause a sky creature, which they believe swallowed the moon

Hupa - jumping dance costume, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hupa - jumping dance costume, c1923. Photograph shows man wearing breastplate of beads and shell

Atlumhl- Koskimo, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Atlumhl- Koskimo, c1914. North American Indian man, in costume with ceremonial mask, on hands and knees

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

White deerskin dance costume-Hupa, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
White deerskin dance costume-Hupa, c1923. Hupa Indian, half-length, standing, facing left, in ceremonial costume

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

Wedding guests, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wedding guests, c1914. Kwakiutl people in canoes, British Columbia

Hamatsa emerging from the woods-Koskimo, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hamatsa emerging from the woods-Koskimo, c1914. Hamatsa shaman, three-quarter length portrait, seated on ground in front of tree, facing front

Kotsuis and Hohhug-Nakoaktok, wearing ceremonial dress, with long beaks, on their haunches, dancing(?), c1914

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

The drying mummy, 1910, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The drying mummy, 1910, c1910. Kwakiutl man inside board structure, curing mummy over smoke and coals of fire

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

Wishham bride, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wishham bride, c1910. Tlakluit bride, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing braids, beaded headdress with Chinese coins, dentalium shell earrings, beaded buckskin dress

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

Arikara medicine ceremony-the Bears, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara medicine ceremony-the Bears, c1908. Photo shows six men standing in line in front of cedar tree, holding rattles and singing

Tsunukwalahl-Qagyuhl, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tsunukwalahl-Qagyuhl, c1914. Person wearing Mask of Tsunukwalahl, a mythical being, used during the Winter Dance

Masked dancer, Cowichan, c1913. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Masked dancer, Cowichan, c1913

The Hamatsa-Nakoaktok, 1910, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Hamatsa-Nakoaktok, 1910, c1910. Half-length portrait of Nakoaktok man, facing left, wearing cedar root ceremonial loop

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

Oraibi snake dance, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Oraibi snake dance, 1904, c1905. Hopi Indians, Arizona, in snake ceremony, with pueblo and onlookers in background

The chief-Klamath, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The chief-Klamath, c1923. Photograph shows Klamath Indian chief in ceremonial headdress standing on hill overlooking Crater Lake, Oregon

Tablita Dance [D], c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tablita Dance [D], c1905. Tewa Indians dancing in line formation

At the shrine-Navaho, c1904. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
At the shrine-Navaho, c1904. Three Navajos with horses, gathered before mound of rocks and vegetation

Flute dancers at Tureva Spring (B), c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Flute dancers at Tureva Spring (B), c1905. Dancers preparing for ceremony on upper terrace

Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering, c1907. Interior of tepee, man kneeling on ground remouving buffalo hide around skull on ground, another male behind altar warming hands by fire

Flute dancers at Tureva Spring, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Flute dancers at Tureva Spring, c1905. Photograph shows dancers preparing for a flute ceremony on upper terrace

High Hawk, 1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
High Hawk, 1907. Photograph shows full-length portrait of High Hawk, facing front, standing, wearing war bonnet, ceremonial dress, medallion, and holding a coup stick

Horse in festive harness and rider in ceremonial attire, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Horse in festive harness and rider in ceremonial attire, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs

Gusinoozersk Datsan Khamba Lama (abbot (1)), lamas and lama musicians... 1880-1889. Creator: Peter Adamovich Milevskiy
Gusinoozersk Datsan Khamba Lama (abbot (1)), lamas and lama musicians. During the service, Khamba Lama holds a honkho in his hands, that is, a bell and a vachir (2)

A prayer service at the laying of a railway bridge over the Yenisei River, 1896. Creator: IR Tomashkevich
A prayer service at the laying of a railway bridge over the Yenisei River, 1896. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist

Prayer in a Chapel, 1890. Creator: Ivan Nikolaevich Krasnov
Prayer in a Chapel, 1890. The photographs were taken on Sakhalin Island during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and provide rare glimpses of the island's settlements, prisons

The International Exhibition: a scene near the Eastern Dome on the closing day, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition: a scene near the Eastern Dome on the closing day, 1862. Whether from accident or with a design to draw off some of the human pressure from the western portion of

Laying the foundation-stone of the Albert Harbour, Greenock, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Laying the foundation-stone of the Albert Harbour, Greenock, [Scotland], 1862. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. Andrew Swan

Inauguration of the memorial statue to Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P.…Boston, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Inauguration of the memorial statue to Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P. in the Market-Place, Boston, [in Lincolnshire], 1862. View of the...ceremony of uncovering the Ingram Memorial Statue

Opening of the Hartley Institution at Southampton by Lord Palmerston... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the Hartley Institution at Southampton by Lord Palmerston [the British prime minister]: the theatre - the town clerk reading the address of the corporation to His Lordship, 1862

Portion of the State Ceremonial on the Upper Terrace of the Horticultural Society's Gardens, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Portion of the State Ceremonial on the Upper Terrace of the Horticultural Society's Gardens, [South Kensington, London], 1862

The opening of the Hartley Institution at Southampton by Lord Palmerston... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The opening of the Hartley Institution at Southampton by Lord Palmerston: arrival of His Lordship at the Institution, 1862

Arrival of a Minister of War in Aleksandrovsk Post in 1903, 1903. Creator: Ivan Nikolaevich Krasnov
Arrival of a Minister of War in Aleksandrovsk Post in 1903, 1903. Sakhalin Island was used by imperial Russia as a penal colony and place of exile for criminals and political prisoners

Presentation of Colours to the Victoria Rifles at Montreal, Canada, 1862. Creator: E. Skill
Presentation of Colours to the Victoria Rifles at Montreal, Canada, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Notman. The Victoria Rifle Corps, Montreal

The International Exhibition: the chairmen of the juries... 1862. Creator: Mason Jackson
The International Exhibition: the chairmen of the juries delivering the awards to Earl Granville, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company

The Award of Prizes at the International Exhibition... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Award of Prizes at the International Exhibition: Earl Granville, President of the Royal Commission, reading the address, 1862

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