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Images from the Edward Curtis Collection at the Arizona Capitol Museum
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    • The Potter, Portfolio 12, Plate 426

    • The Potter, Portfolio 12, Plate 426

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Hopi Indians

    • Every visitor at East mesa knows Nampeyo, the potter of Hano, whose creations excel those of any rival. Stranger wander into her house, welcome though unbidden, but Nampeyo only works and smiles. In the plate her paint-stone occupies the central...
    • The Vanishing Race - Navaho, Portfolio 1, Plate 1

    • The Vanishing Race - Navaho, Portfolio 1, Plate 1

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Navajo Indians

    • The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn in their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so...
    • The Water Carriers, Portfolio 12, Plate 435

    • The Water Carriers, Portfolio 12, Plate 435

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Hopi Indians

    • “The reservation of 3863 square miles lies in the eastern watershed of the Little Colorado, but at no point does it extend to the river. In fact there is no perennial stream within its borders. The country is typical of the semi-arid...
    • The Yuma, Portfolio 2, Plate 62

    • The Yuma, Portfolio 2, Plate 62

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Yuma Indians

    • “Yuma mythology points to the vicinity opposite Fort Mohave, on the California side of the Colorado river, as having been the place of origin of the various Yuman tribes now found along the river from the Grand Canon to the Gulf. The tribe...
    • Tonovige - Havasupai, Portfolio 2, Plate 74

    • Tonovige - Havasupai, Portfolio 2, Plate 74

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Havasupai Indians

    • This portrait was made in winter while a party of Havasupai were encamped in the high country above their cañon home. As a snowstorm was raging at the time, the woman's hair became dotted with flakes, as the picture reveals.
    • Vash Gon - Jicarilla, Portfolio 1, Plate 20

    • Vash Gon - Jicarilla, Portfolio 1, Plate 20

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Jicarilla Indians

    • “The Jicarillas, or, as they are commonly called, ‘Jicarilla Apaches,’ occupy a reservation of nearly four hundred and fifty square miles of mountainous country in northern New Mexico. Linguistically the Jicarillas are of the same stock as...
    • Walpi Architecture, Portfolio 12, Plate 421

    • Walpi Architecture, Portfolio 12, Plate 421

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Hopi Indians

    • The house-walls are about eighteen inches thick, and consist of fragments of sandstone, shaped by fracture but undressed, and bound together with mud plaster. The upper levels of the terraced buildings are reached by ladders and by stone steps.
    • Walpi, Portfolio 12, Plate 410

    • Walpi, Portfolio 12, Plate 410

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Hopi Indians

    • Picturesque Walpi, perched on the point of a rocky island in a sea of sand, is an irregular, rambling community-house, built without design, added to in haphazard fashion as need arose; yet it constitutes a perfectly satisfying artistic whole.
    • Women of the Desert - Navaho, Portfolio 1, Plate 27

    • Women of the Desert - Navaho, Portfolio 1, Plate 27

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Navajo Indians

    • The Navaho women are, for the greater part, the owners of the flocks and invariably, with the children, the herders. They are so thoroughly at home on their scrubby ponies that they seem a part of them and probably excel all other Indians as...

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