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

A Hupa spear fisherman watches for salmon, 1923

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A Maricopa woman, 1907

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Okuwa-Tsire, also known as “Cloud Bird,” of the San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1905

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A Maricopa woman with arrow-brush stalks, 1907

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An Apsaroke shaman, 1908

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A Cahuilla woman, 1924

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A Kwakiutl chief’s daughter, 1910

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A Kutenai duck hunter, 1910

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Medicine Crow, of the Apsaroke tribe, 1908

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A Wishran girl, 1910

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Nesjaja Hatali, Navajo medicine man, 1904

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Members of the Qagyuhl tribe dance to restore an eclipsed moon, c. 1910

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