Spiritual Collection (page 2)

Yebichai prayer, C, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Yebichai prayer, C, c1906. Navajo men impersonating myth characters during Yebichai dance

Apache dancers, c1906. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Apache dancers, c1906

Substitute sacred head-dress-Piegan, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Substitute sacred head-dress-Piegan, c1910. Piegan woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing headdress made of ermine tails, feathers, and bunches of grass

Medicine bags, c1910. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Medicine bags, c1910. Four Piegan fringed leather containers hung on tripod

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

An offering at the waterfall-Nambe, 1927 Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
An offering at the waterfall-Nambe, 1927 Nambe Indian placing prayer plume at waterfall

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

Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing right, c1926. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing right, c1926

The altar, 1908, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The altar, 1908, c1908. Arikara Indian and altar

Buffalo Society, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Buffalo Society, animal dance-Cheyenne, c1927

Hupa female shaman, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hupa female shaman, c1923. Athapascan Hupa woman from northwestern California, half-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing shell headbands, necklace, and holding up two baskets

Dancer with black deer effigy-Hupa, c1923. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Dancer with black deer effigy-Hupa, c1923. Hupa Indian dancer holding head and skin of deer

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

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

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

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

A Cheyenne Peyote leader, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Cheyenne Peyote leader, c1927. Man, three-quarter length, seated, facing left

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

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

Saint Anthony the Abbot Tormented by Demons. Artist: Desi, Joan (active 1481-1520)
Saint Anthony the Abbot Tormented by Demons. Found in the collection of Museu Nacional d Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Prayer to the Great Mystery, (Slow Bull), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Prayer to the Great Mystery, (Slow Bull), c1907. Slow Bull, squatting, wearing breechcloth, holding pipe with mouthpiece pointing skyward, buffalo skull at his feet

Incense over a medicine bundle, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Incense over a medicine bundle, c1908. Hidatsa Indian (Yellow Owl?) kneeling and holding bowl over bundle

Atsina crazy dance-[A dancer kisses the grandfather], c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Atsina crazy dance-[A dancer kisses the grandfather], c1908

Sisiutl-Qagyuhl, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sisiutl-Qagyuhl, c1914. Sisiutl, one of the main dancers in the Winter Dance ceremonies, wearing a double-headed serpent mask and shirt made of hemlock boughs

Tonenili-Navaho, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tonenili-Navaho, c1905. Navajo man bedecked in hemlock boughs and mask of a clown associated with the mischievous rain god Tonenili, "Water Sprinkler"

Nane-Qagyuhl, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nane-Qagyuhl, c1914. Man dressed in a full-body bear costume. The bear had the duty of guarding the dance house

Sand painting, Wind Doctor's ceremony-Navaho, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Sand painting, Wind Doctor's ceremony-Navaho, c1905

Arikara medicine fraternity-The prayer, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Arikara medicine fraternity-The prayer, c1908. Photo shows Arikara shamans, without shirts, backs to camera, seated in a semi-circle around a sacred cedar tree, tipis in background

Yeibichai initiation outdoors, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Yeibichai initiation outdoors, 1904, c1905. Group of Indians, most on horseback, watching initiation of young Indian man

Crying to the spirits, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Crying to the spirits, c1908. Hidatsa Indian (Yellow Owl?) standing in field, full-length, wearing fur robe, facing right

Offering to the sun-San Ildefonso, c1927. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Offering to the sun-San Ildefonso, c1927. Barechested Tewa man with hands raised skyward, each holding a feather, as he faces the sun

An incident of the Winter Dance-Nakoaktok, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
An incident of the Winter Dance-Nakoaktok, c1914. Kwakiutl people, some bowing before totem poles in background, others seated facing front as part of the nunhlim ceremony

The Medicine Man (Slow Bull), c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Medicine Man (Slow Bull), c1907. Slow Bull, full-length portrait, facing front, holding pipe, buffalo skull at his feet

Fasting, 1907, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Fasting, 1907, c1907. Teton Sioux Indian performing vision cry ceremony through fasting and chanting to the Great Mystery

The Oath-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Oath-Apsaroke, c1908. Three Apsaroke men gazing skyward, two holding rifles, one with object skewered on arrow pointed skyward, bison skull at their feet

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

The mythic tree, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The mythic tree, c1908. Tree in field

A burial platform-Apsaroke, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A burial platform-Apsaroke, c1908

The offering-Hu Kalowa Pi ceremony, 1907, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
The offering-Hu Kalowa Pi ceremony, 1907, c1907. Teton Indian, Slow Bull(?), holding pipe(?) on skull of bison

Hu Kalowa Pi, the altar complete, 1907, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Hu Kalowa Pi, the altar complete, 1907, c1907. Three Native Americans, Slow Bull, Saliva, and Picket Pin, kneeling with bison skull

Incense-Atsina, c1908. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Incense-Atsina, c1908. Four Atsina men, each wrapped in a blanket, seated on ground, one with arm and fist raised skyward, one holding a wing

Prayer to the mystery, c1907. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Prayer to the mystery, c1907. Oglala Sioux man, Picket Pin, wearing breechcloth, holding pipe with mouthpiece pointing skyward, buffalo skull at his feet

A Koskimo House-post, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Koskimo House-post, c1914. Interior supporting columns of Koskimo home bearing carvings commemorating incidents in family history, often depicting the guardian spirit of the founder

Yeibichai, patient in sweat bath, 1904, c1905. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Yeibichai, patient in sweat bath, 1904, c1905. Indian wrapped in blanket with medicine man and another man standing over him

Nuhlimahla-Qagyuhl, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nuhlimahla-Qagyuhl, c1914. Person wearing ceremonial mask of the Nuhlimahla during the during the Winter Dance ceremony. These characters impersonated fools

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