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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01430
Title: Four Arikara men of the Black-tailed Deer/Branched Horn medicine fraternity dance by the Sacred Cedar
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Summary: In an encampment along Beaver Creek on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Curtis has photographed ceremonial dances of the Arikara Indian medicine fraternities. This image is of four of the Black-tailed Deer, or Branched Horn, medicine fraternity dancing around the Sacred Cedar outside a medicine lodge. They men are painted and dressed in a specific way as proscribed by their ritualistic history. The two dark figures are painted in a manner suggesting the elk, the others the antelope. __The North American Indian (1907-1930) v.05, The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1909), plate no. 162
Red ID: PH_I_146225 Image ID: 107385 Image Notes: 00086-01430

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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