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Edward S. Curtis’s
The North American Indian

portfolio 4 plate no. 141 Apsaroke medicine tipi - photogravure plate

Portfolio plate no. 141

Title

Apsaroke medicine tipi

Curtis Caption

The Apsaroke medicine-men usually painted their lodges according to the visions received while fasting and supplicating their spirits. This tipi was painted dark red, with various symbols on the covering. No man would dare so to decorate a tipi without having received his instructions in revelation from the spirits.

Creator

Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952

Physical Description

1 photogravure : brown ink ; 46 x 34 cm [plate size]
Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son

Date of Original

1905

Source

The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.04, The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1909), plate no. 141

Relation

Digital images of the plates supported by an award from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, and mounted in American Memory. See http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
Digital reproduction of the photomechanical print

Digital I.D.

cp04030

Rights

For educational, non-commercial use only. Written permission required for any reproduction beyond fair use. Credit: Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian," 2003.
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/

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