Placating the Spirit of a Slain Eagle - Assiniboin
In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The eighteenth volume, featuring the Chipewyan, Cree and Sarsi trib...
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ftseattlepldc:oai:cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org:p16118coll16/753 2023-05-15T15:25:50+02:00 Placating the Spirit of a Slain Eagle - Assiniboin Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952 Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge, Mass. 192u 1926 18 x 22 in http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16118coll16,753 eng eng Edward S. Curtis Digital Collection spl_nai_18_634 http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16118coll16,753 For further information about rights and reproductions, visit https://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/custom/rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/613471030 Indians of North America--Canada Indians of North America--Alberta Assiniboine Indians--Rites and ceremonies Eagles image photographs 1926 ftseattlepldc 2022-07-29T13:28:57Z In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The eighteenth volume, featuring the Chipewyan, Cree and Sarsi tribes, was published in 1928. "For their feathers, which were used in many ways as ornaments and as fetishes, eagles were caught by a hunter concealed in a brush-covered pit. A rather elaborate ceremony took place over the bodies of the slain birds for the purpose of placating the eagle spirits. The Sarsi custom is described at some length in Volume XVIII, pages 95-99." Each volume of the North American Indian includes a set of portfolio photographs and a volume of text detailing tribal history and culture. At this time, the library has digitized the portfolio photographs from all 20 volumes. The accompanying text for each volume can be found on Northwestern University's website at: http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/index.html Harriet Bullitt Master images photographed at 300 ppi, 48 bit color, and saved as TIFF files. Adobe Photoshop used to crop, resize and convert to JPEG format. Master image file size: 306,759,488 bytes. Published No Known Copyright The Seattle Public Library does not have conclusive information pertaining to the copyright status of this object as of March 2018 but has reasonable cause to believe that the object is not covered by copyright or related rights. Items published between 1923 and 1963 would need to be published with proper copyright notice and have their copyright renewed to still be in copyright today. Special Collections staff found no record of renewal in the US Copyright Office�s registration and renewal records but other restrictions may apply. Users should conduct their own research before using this photograph for any purposes not permitted under the Fair Use exception of the United States copyright law. Please contact the Seattle Public Library Special Collections ... Still Image assiniboine Chipewyan The Seattle Public Library Special Collections Online Canada Indian |
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In 1906, Edward S. Curtis received funding from J.P. Morgan to begin work on "The North American Indian," a twenty volume set of photographs and text documenting Native American tribes throughout the western United States. The eighteenth volume, featuring the Chipewyan, Cree and Sarsi tribes, was published in 1928. "For their feathers, which were used in many ways as ornaments and as fetishes, eagles were caught by a hunter concealed in a brush-covered pit. A rather elaborate ceremony took place over the bodies of the slain birds for the purpose of placating the eagle spirits. The Sarsi custom is described at some length in Volume XVIII, pages 95-99." Each volume of the North American Indian includes a set of portfolio photographs and a volume of text detailing tribal history and culture. At this time, the library has digitized the portfolio photographs from all 20 volumes. The accompanying text for each volume can be found on Northwestern University's website at: http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/index.html Harriet Bullitt Master images photographed at 300 ppi, 48 bit color, and saved as TIFF files. Adobe Photoshop used to crop, resize and convert to JPEG format. Master image file size: 306,759,488 bytes. Published No Known Copyright The Seattle Public Library does not have conclusive information pertaining to the copyright status of this object as of March 2018 but has reasonable cause to believe that the object is not covered by copyright or related rights. Items published between 1923 and 1963 would need to be published with proper copyright notice and have their copyright renewed to still be in copyright today. Special Collections staff found no record of renewal in the US Copyright Office�s registration and renewal records but other restrictions may apply. Users should conduct their own research before using this photograph for any purposes not permitted under the Fair Use exception of the United States copyright law. Please contact the Seattle Public Library Special Collections ... |
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Placating the Spirit of a Slain Eagle - Assiniboin |
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