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Sweat Lodge

Sweat Lodge Frame

Sun Dance Lodge

Sun Dance Indian Lodge

Indian Sun Dance

Sun Dance

Indian in a Mask

Indian in a Mask

Flathead Dancing

Flathead Dance

Indian Meditation

Indian Meditation

Indian Sweat Bath

Indian Sweat Bath

Winter Dancers

Group of Winter Dancers

Cheyenne Indian Animal Dance

Animal Dance

Indian Wedding Guests

Tenaktak Wedding Guests

Three Arikara men, members of the medicine fraternity, dancing, painted to represent ducks and holding rushes.

Arikara Medicine Ceremony

Chanting Indians

Chanting Indians

Dancer wearing raven mask with coat of cormorant skins during the numhlin ceremony.

Kwahwumhl

Indian Mortuary House

Mamalelekala Chiefs Mortuary House

Hamasaka, a Kwakiutl chief

Hamasaka Tluwulahu Costume

Three Navajos with horses, gathered before mound of rocks and vegetation.

Indian Shrine

Snake Dancers

Snake Dancer

Kwakiutl Dancers

Masked Dancers in Canoes

Cheyenne Indian Dancers

Cheyenne Animal Dance

Kwakiutl Indian in costume with skulls.

Kominaka Dancer

Nayenezgani, a Navajo deity, full-length portrait, facing front, wearing body paints and other adornments.

Nayenezgani

 

 

 

 

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