Captured: North American Indian Photographs by Edward Curtis

[Webster Green]

Great pics here! Someone just sent me the link today.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/11/15/north-american-indian-photographs-by-edward-curtis/2551

[Speck Tater]

1. In #54 the unidentified lake with Chief Klamath is Crater Lake in Klamath County OR

On Edit: The island in the picture is called "Wizard Island". There can be no mistaking the location of the photo. Modern photo: http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1403814980066023524sEIUUk

[malaise]

2. Lovely

Thank you

Rec

[BlueJazz]

3. Absolutely Wonderful. Thanks for posting.

[elfin]

4. Thanks for the link!

I do North American Indian tours in a natural history museum, and while these were "staged" in some respect, they do reveal real people doing everyday tasks, illuminating a rich heritage of our continenet.

[rustydog]

5. Some of his photographs are on display in my Hospital

They are very educational. Thanks for the entertaining break!

[drm604]

6. Thank you.

Fantastic photographs.

[Little Star]

7. Thanks for the link. Beautiful pictures and beautiful people.

[1monster]

8. Thank you for posting

[blondeatlast]

9. Breathtaking! I have a few postcards with his photos on them; I'm

planning to frame them when I get the chance.

Thanks; those are just plain GORGEOUS.

[spanone]

10. wow. thank you.

[AzDar]

11. Absolutely beautiful! IIRC, Curtis was one of the first to question the "official story"

of the Little Bighorn, after meeting and photographing Native American survivors of the battle.

[tabatha]

12. Wonderful photos. Thanks for posting.

#24 is exquisite.

http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-160964/cache/curtis025.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG

[Webster Green]

19. I like that one too.

Northern California! :thumbsup:

[tabatha]

20. I would like to do photo excursions to N CA

But not in 2011. I have been to Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, and all are great. One of my photos of the Mount Diablo Fairy Lantern was used in an article in a science magazine.

[Webster Green]

24. Northern California is so amazing.

Nice pic. I'm guessing the flower only grows on Mount Diablo.

I lived out past Point Reyes in Inverness for awhile. That was a great.

[Lisa0825]

13. WOW! Great pics!!! nt

[Toucano]

14. Superb gallery. K&R EOM

[AsahinaKimi]

15. I was struck with #14

Boys in the Kayak. Looking at their faces, look so Asian! Omg..
Wonderful pics, thank you!

[Zywiec]

16. Wonderful, thanks! n/t

[madokie]

17. Great Photos

My dad was born in 1897 so he was witness to many similar scenes

rec

[frylock]

18. wow..

those are amazing shots. thanks for sharing!

[pamela]

21. Thank you for posting this.

Wonderful photos. Thank you so much.

[HEyHEY]

22. Why are shots from Canada in the library of congress?

[Webster Green]

25. Because it is a library?

There's all kinds of stuff in there.

[HEyHEY]

27. Culture theifs!:P

[liberation]

46. Is that the Canadian spelling? J/K

;-)

[awoke_in_2003]

57. what's all this aboot, eh? .nt

[blondeatlast]

64. LOL! Or should I say LUL, eh? nt

[HEyHEY]

66. Hosers!

[patrice]

23. Stunning! Thanks very much for the link! nt

[niyad]

26. k and r--bookmarked for later, and thank you for sharing this (didn't know the dp had anything like

this. still haven't forgiven them for endorsing bush in '04 but may stop disliking them quite so much)

[pa28]

28. You just made my evening.

I especially like #54 the Klamath Indian Chief overlooking Crater Lake Oregon. I was also struck by how late this particular photo was shot.

These images strike me as important as they've captured some of the last moments of real day-to-day native american life. Wow.

[Lucinda]

29. Amazing! Thank you!

[csziggy]

30. When I was working at the university library they had a copy of the original books

Of Curtis' photographs of American Indians. The photographs are incredibly beautiful and sad, too.

[cilla4progress]

34. Yes, I wish our nation would come to terms

with its cultural genocide. It's a karmic debt owed, but not honored.

Lovely photos. Thank you.

[The Midway Rebel]

31. wow! nt

[burrowowl]

32. Thanks for the link!

[XemaSab]

33. The Hupa man is fishing along the Trinity River in California

Very cool link.

[Webster Green]

38. The fishing in the Trinity River must have been awesome back then.

The man looks and dresses like some Trinity County hippies that I know. :hippie:

[denbot]

35. Fantastic post

Thank you

[Retrograde]

36. Love the little boys in the kayak! (n/t)

[Joe Fields]

37. I am in love with the Edward Curtis photographs.

I know all about his work with photographing the vanishing Native American tribes and his many volumes of photographs. They depict the very best of life by Native Americans.

If I could ever afford the thirty-fifty thousand dollars per volume of his photo essays, I would gladly pay it and proudly display them.

Were it not for Curtis, this history would be forever lost.

[kentuck]

39. Wonderful!!

Captures a reality.

[unhappycamper]

40. k&r

Thank you for the pictures.

[xchrom]

41. recommend

[felix_numinous]

42. How beautiful

[alterfurz]

43. for those who use Facebook, here is another good link

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000266004121#!/pages/Native-American-Indian-Old-Photos/10150102703945578

[Behind the Aegis]

44. How wonderful! Thank you for sharing!!!

[Taverner]

45. Awesome! What a time machine ride!

[liberation]

47. Amazing, thank you! thank you!

How things change in 100 years...

[DemoTex]

48. K&R

Excellent!

[progressoid]

49. I had a chance to view some of the original 20 volumes of his work.

It was stunning and awe inspiring.


Also, #22 looks like my paternal grandfather.

[Sienna86]

50. Spectacular

Thank you for posting the link.

[PufPuf23]

51. Here are all 20 volumes of the Curtis Collection online

including photos and text and a search function

http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/toc.cgi

[progressoid]

67. Wow, thanks for that link.

That's going in my faves.

:thumbsup:

[truedelphi]

69. I am capturing your remark here, PufPuf23.

And putting it into my journal so I will have it.

All 20 volumes of the Curtis Collection online

including photos and text and a search function

http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/toc.cgi

[jwirr]

52. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

[Brother Buzz]

53. Wow, that is the largest and diverse collection of Curtis photographs I've seen at one source

Back in the sixties, we had an art gallery in town that sold original (and pricey) Curtis prints, all sepia brown, and almost exclusively from the plains. No Southwest, Alaska or Pacific Northwest prints at all.

Number 100 is kinda special to me, I spent time with Hupa Indians fishing on platforms on the Trinity River at the Ishi Pishi Falls. The hoop nets have improved, the platforms not so much.

[PufPuf23]

54. Ishi Pishi Falls is in Karuk country on the Klamath River at Katimin

by Somes Bar about a mile upstream from where the Salmon River enters the Klamath. To get to Ishi Pishi Falls from Hoopa, one drives on State Route 96 down the Trinity River then up the Klamath River from Weichipec (in Yurok territory) through Panamnik (Karuk) or about a 36 mile drive from Hoopa.

I graduated Hoopa High School (Hoopa the place, Hupa the people) 40 years ago and spent my childhood in Orleans (Panamnik); actually live at Tishanik, still active site of the World Renewal and White Deerskin Dance or pichi 'avich.

A searchable link of the entire Curtis Collection is in post #51.

[Brother Buzz]

56. Silly me, you are correct

Klamath, not the Trinity river. That may also explain the different hoop styles.

My memory is a little foggy as it happened over forty years ago. :crazy:

[toddaa]

55. Stunning

[chaska]

58. How sad to have lived in a time before color, when life was only black and white.

Okay, lame.

Beautiful, amazing photos.

[highplainsdem]

59. Stunning! Thank you! K&R

[maritzasolito]

60. Webster Green, thank you...

I am a Maya descendent and thank you from the bottom of my heart for the link!

[jimlup]

61. Wow!

[femrap]

62. Thank you....

I enjoyed looking back to a simple time...I loved the 'homes.'

It's amazing how we have really screwed up things in such a short time.

[Godot51]

63. Wonderful...

These are a reminder of our past that should be seen by every American immigrant, like myself, descended from a Scots family who arrived in the early 17th century, probably penniless and outlawed.

[L. Coyote]

65. REC. On my wall now.

[PufPuf23]

68. Kick for friday nt