Native American Life in the Early 1900s by Edward Sheriff Curtis

A Kwakiutl man wearing a mask depicting a man transforming into a loon, 1914

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An Apsaroke man on horseback, 1908

A Klamath chief stands on a hill above Crater Lake, Oregon, 1923

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Iron Breast, a Piegan man, 1900

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Black Eagle, an Assiniboin man, 1908

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Nayenezgani, a Navajo man, 1904

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A Kwakiutl person dressed as a forest spirit, Nuhlimkilaka, (“bringer of confusion”), 1914

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A Hupa woman, 1923

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Mowakiu, a Tsawatenok man, 1914

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Piegan chiefs, 1900

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Vash Gon, a Jicarrilla man, c. 1910

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“The Hopi Maiden.”, 1905

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A Jicarrilla girl, c. 1910

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A Zuni woman, 1903

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Iahla, also known as “Willow,” of the Taos Pueblo, 1905

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A Papago woman, 1907

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