Edward S. Curtis: Spiritual Life Photographs

St. Stephens Dance -- Acoma

1905

Fasting

1907

The altar

1908

Whale ceremonial - Clayoquot

1910

Incense--Atsina

1908

Nuhlimkilaka--Koskimo

1914

Hu Kalowa Pi ceremony

1907

Sand painting, Wind Doctor's ceremony--Navaho

1905

Haschebaad--Navaho

1905

Tonenili--Navaho

1905

Yebichai sweat--Navaho

1905

Masked dancer--Cowichan

1913

Flute dancers at Tureva Spring

1905

Gray Dawn--Cheyenne

1910

A burial platform--Apsaroke

1908

[Kotsuis and Hohhug--Nakoaktok, wearing ceremonial dress,…

1914

[Dancer with black deer effigy--Hupa]

1923

[Apache medicine cap and fetish]

1907

Substitute sacred head-dress--Piegan

1910

Medicine bags

1910

The altar

1910

Before the final journey--Cheyenne

1910

Offering the pipe to the Earth--Cheyenne

1910

[Singing to the snakes, Shipolovi]

1906

[Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering]

1907

[Hu ka-lowa pifire-carrier bringing the skull]

1908

Departure from Preparation lodge--Cheyenne

1910

Crazy dancers--Cheyenne

1910

Offering pipe to the skull--Cheyenne

1910

Priests passing before the pipe--Cheyenne

1910

Night medicine men

1908

Atsina crazy dance--[A dancer kisses the grandfather]

1908

Group of Winter Dancers--Qagyuhl

1914

Nuhlimahla--Qagyuhl

1914

Mask of the octopus hunter--Qagyuhl

1914

An incident of the Winter Dance--Nakoaktok

1914

Masked dancers in canoes [B]--Qagyuhl

1914

Nane--Qagyuhl

1914

Sisiutl--Qagyuhl

1914

A Tluwulahu mask--Tsawatenok

1914

A Koskimo House-post

1914

Paqusilahl--Qagyuhl

1914

Arikara medicine fraternity--The prayer

1908

Atsina Fly Dance

1908

Tsagiglalal, the guardian of Nihhluidih--Wishram

1910

Gaaskidi [i.e. Ganaskidi]--Navaho

1905

Snake dancers entering the plaza

1905

Praying to the Spirits at Crater Lake--Klamath

1923

[Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San…

1905

[Sun dance pledgers--Cheyenne]

1910

Ceremonial mask--Nunivak

1929

[An offering at the waterfall--Nambe]

1927

[Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing right]

1926

[Buffalo Society, animal dance--Cheyenne]

1927

[Skidi and Wichita dancers]

1927

Chiefs in the Sun Dance parade--Cheyenne

1927

The Wolf, animal dance--Cheyenne

1927

Water rite purification, Cheyenne animal dance

1927

The Clowns, animal dance--Cheyenne

1927

At the pool, animal dance--Cheyenne

1927

[Arikara medicine ceremony--the Bears]

1908

The Oath--Apsaroke

1908

Hamatsa emerging from the woods--Koskimo

1914

Masked dancers--Qagyuhl

1914

Haschogan (House God) - The Yebichai Hunchback

1904

The snake priest

1906

The mythic tree

1908

Incense over a medicine bundle

1908

Crying to the spirits

1908

Arikara Medicine Ceremony--The Ducks

1908

For strength and visions--Apsaroke

1908

Offering to the sun--San Ildefonso

1927

Invocation--Sioux

1907

Saliva

1907

Preparing the sweat

1905

Placing kedan

1905

Yebichai prayer, C

1906

[Toneneli and Haschelti]

1905

[Haschelti and Haschebaad]

1905

[The chanter]

1905

Apache dancers

1906

[Flute dancers at Tureva Spring (B)]

1905

The mythic stone--Hidatsa

1908

Hu Kalawa Pi, the altar complete

1907

The offering--San Ildefonso

1927

Tobadzischini--Navaho

1904

Three chanters--Navaho

1905

Buffalo Dance at Hano [A]

1905

Saliva, Slow Bull (in background), Picket Pin's arm

1907

Buffalo dancers

1905

Offering the pipe

1908

[Yebichai, the beggar, Tonenili-Navajo Indian, dressed in…

1904

Snake priest

1900

Feast march ceremony

1905

Slow Bull

1907

Slow Bull

1907

Day dreams

1905

Giving the medicine--Navaho

1905

Yebichai prayer, E

1906

Yebichai, patient in sweat bath

1904

Yebichai initiation outdoors

1904

Meditation (Cheyenne River Medicine Rock)

1907

The offering--Hu Kalowa Pi ceremony

1907

The Medicine Man (Slow Bull)

1907

Hupa female shaman

1923