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A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians

This volume reproduces a number of Wrensted's photographs including the names of the subjects, their biographical data, and an ethnographic analysis of their Native attire.

Edward Sheriff Curtis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Edward Sheriff Curtis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-06-18
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  • Publisher: Phaidon

A beautiful monograph featuring Curtis's nineteenth-century portraits of Native Americans.

Indians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Indians

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Indians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Indians

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Life Among the Indians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Life Among the Indians

Alice C. Fletcher (1838–1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher’s popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886–87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881–82, remained unpublished in Fletcher’s archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological f...

Principles of Visual Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Principles of Visual Anthropology

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production.

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Life at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency

Anadarko, Oklahoma, bills itself today as the “Indian Capital of the Nation,” but it was a drowsy frontier village when budding photographer Annette Ross Hume arrived in 1890. Home to a federal agency charged with serving the many American Indian tribes in the area, the town burgeoned when the U.S. government auctioned off building lots at the turn of the twentieth century. Hume faithfully documented its explosive growth and the American Indians she encountered. Her extraordinary photographs are collected here for the first time. In their introduction, authors Kristina L. Southwell and John R. Lovett provide an illuminating biography of Hume, focusing on her life in Anadarko and the deve...

Indians
  • Language: en

Indians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Crow Indian Photographer
  • Language: en

Crow Indian Photographer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

One of the earliest Native American photographers, Richard Throssel (1882-1933) undertook a vast personal effort to photograph the people and places of the Crow Reservation from 1902 to 1911.

The North American Indian
  • Language: en

The North American Indian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1907
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"Curtis spent the best part of his life-nearly thirty years-documenting what he considered to be the traditional way of life for Indians living in the trans-Mississippi West. He took more than 40,000 photographs, collected more than 350 traditional Indian tales, and made more than 10,000 sound recordings of Indian speeches and music His magnum opus was The North American Indian." (Pritzker, Edward S. Curtis, 6).