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The figure of the Indians' fort or palizado in New England and the man...

The village of the Pequot Indians which was attacked and destroyed by Captain Underhill and Captain Mason in 1637. Illus. in: Nevves from America / John Underhill. London : Printed by J.D. for Peter Cole, [...]... More

Jacob van Meurs - America - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Public domain photograph of 17th century Dutch drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

DCM 0241: Anonymous, North American Indian Courting Flute (Vertical Wh...

Decorated with indented dots, painted red. The end is carved with a geometric design. Lead flue plate and carved wooden cover in the form of unidentified animal. Instrument type: Courting Flute (Vertical Whistl... More

L'Amérique, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows a young Native American maiden, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing a fur and fabric robe, a feathered headdress, a quiver and bow; the early form of the allegorical figure representi... More

Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Ro...

Mandan Indians using two dogs to drag a toboggan on the frozen Missouri River. Illus. in: Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied. Coblenz : J. Hoelscher, 183... More

[Bird's-eye view of a Native American deer hunt in New France (Canada)...

Illus. in: Voyages et descouvertures faites en la Nouvelle France, depuis l'année 1615 ... / Samuel de Champlain. Paris : C. Collet, 1619, opp. p. 52.

[Map of the upper Great Plains and Rocky Mountains region] /

Shows territories of various North American Indian tribes. Relief shown by hachures. Title devised by cataloger. Pen-and-ink and colored ink. Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 709 Cohen, Paul E. Ma... More

An emigrant train attacked by hostile Indians on the prairie / Champne...

Illustration shows an emigrant wagon train being attacked by Natives while traveling across the Great Plains. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 13, no. 7 (1857 August 15), pp. 104-105. A... More

Diegeños i.e. Diegueños Arthur Schoff, del. ; Lith of Sarony & Co., Ne...

Illus. issued in: Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey / made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by William H. Emory. Washington, D.C. : C. Wendell, 1857, v. 1, p. [107] Ass... More

[Little Robe, Cheyenne Indian, half-length portrait, seated, facing ri...

National Photo Company Collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Native American man, half-length portrait, facing front]

Photo from Indian Wigwam, Julius Meyer, Omaha, Nebraska. On verso: Eaton, photographer.

Santee Sioux women - Public domain portrait

Two Santee Sioux women, full-length portraits, seated, facing front, wrapped in blankets. Possibly photographed by C.L. Hamilton. No. 13.

The One Horn. Winnebago - Public domain portrait photograph

Winnebago man, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left. No. 515. Possibly photographed by B.H. Gurnsey.

American Tablet, Jerome Park Pearl, engraving, Library of Congress

Advertising label for paper showing Indian on pedestal. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Population of an Indian village moving / drawn by Theo. R. Davis.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1870 May 21, p. 324.

"Move on!" Has the Native American no rights that the naturalized Amer...

A policeman ordering a Native man to "move on" away from a voting polls around which are clustered stereotyped "naturalized" Americans. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 15, no. 747 (1871 April 22), p. 361. Refere... More

Indians making birch-bark canoes

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1871 Aug. 5, p. 725.

[Capt. John Moss and Ernest Ingersoll in the Canyon of the Mancos, Col...

Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Red Cloud, half-length portrait, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sitting Bull photographed and published by Palmquist & Jurgens, St. Pa...

Sitting Bull, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, holding peace pipe. 7171(?) U.S. Copyright Office.

View of a third room, in which a great deal of pottery and many stone ...

Photograph shows two men standing at an archaeological excavation site containing clay pots. No. 47.

Historical caricature of the Cherokee nation

R11803 U.S. Copyright Office. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1886 (All rights reserved.) Stamped and inscribed in pencil on lower : Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright Jul 10 18... More

The Hostile Apaches / photographed by C.S. Fly, Tombstone, Arizona.

Composite of four engravings showing "A captive white boy in an Apache camp"; "In order of battle" (Geronimo and Natchez with other Indians); "Geronimo and Natchez" on horses; "Geronimo, his son, and two picked... More

Map showing the location of the Indian reservations within the limits ...

Prime meridians: Washington, D.C. and Greenwich. Inset: Alaska Scale [ca. 1:25,000,000]. 12 x 15 cm. Inset: Mission In. Res. in California. 10 x 7 cm. Inset: Indian Territory in Northeastern Oklahoma. 6 x 8 cm.... More

The last scene of the last act of the Sioux war / drawn by H.F. Farny.

Print shows a Native warrior laid to rest on a scaffold, with a Native seated and a horse lying on the ground beneath; to the right, in the background, wolves or coyotes have gathered. Illus. in: Harper's week... More

Chilkat Indians gathering for Potlatch Dance, Alaska

Photo copyrighted by Winter & Pond, Juneau, Alaska. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Alaska Chilkat; BI (Indians); Indian tribes Chilkat; Shelf.

[Battle, no. 2, half-length portrait, facing left; holding feather hea...

No. 394. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Yellow Shirt, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Copyright by Heyn. No. 434. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Native Americans - Stars Come Out

Sioux Indian - 1/2 length, facing right; holding tomahawk. 60108 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by Heyn. No. 225. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI (Indians); ... More

Dr. Secord, missionary doctor to Indians, with patient on table

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Red Cloud, Chief, head and shoulders portrait, facing slightly right,...

Photo copyrighted by Heyn & Matzen. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Charging Thunder, American Indian], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Charging Thunder, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front with dog. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplicat... More

[Flying Hawk, American Indian] - Public domain portrait photograph

Flying Hawk, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing breastplate.

Chief 2 - guns White Calf and Gov. Erickson

An old photo of a man shaking hands with a native man. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Chief Joseph, ca. 1840-1904 half-length portrait, seated, facing fron...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Iron White Man, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Iron White Man, half-length portrait, facing front. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughter ; 19... More

Curing venison in a Shawnee camp

Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Flying Hawk, Sioux American Indian], portrait of american indian man

Flying Hawk, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing right. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964).... More

Lee Moorhouse - Chief Peo, No. 1

Photograph shows Chief Peo, an American Indian man, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing feather headdress and holding calumet. 3988 U.S. Copyright Office. On back: "Lee Moorhouse, Pendleton, Or... More

Kushira [i.e., Quirana] (or clown) at corn dance, Santo Domingo, New M...

Santo Domingo Pueble man in ceremonial dress, including evergreen boughs. D19788 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Adam Clark Vroman. No. 857.

Chief Black Horn, half portrait; Lakota (Brule), Rosebud Reservation, ...

Pila de la India, Habana. Photochrom print, 1880-1890.

Historic Sites Public domain photograph - photochrome print, colorized, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

An old black and white photo of a native man, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, ... More

[Charging Thunder, American Indian], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Charging Thunder and wife, probably members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplicati... More

Kopeli, Snake priest (Walpi), Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. D19806 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Adam Clark Vroman, Pasadena, California. No. 747.

[Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Joe Black Fox, half-length portrait, seated, facing left. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1964). Gift, Mina Turner, Käsebier's granddaughte... More

[Holy Frog(?) (left) and Big Turnips(?), American Indians]

Holy Frog(?) and Big Turnips (?), probably members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, one wearing a headdress. Title from mount of corresponding print in LOT 10136. LOT 10136 (location of c... More

William Jennings Bryan with Sioux chiefs at Pan-American Exposition, B...

Photograph showing William Jennings Bryan, another man, and four Native Americans in traditional Sioux attire, posed before a tipi. Caption: Indians are (left to right): High Hawk, Jack Red Cloud, Blue Horse, a... More

A dusky Madonna, gelatin silver print

Photograph shows an American Indian woman, from the Plateau region, possibly Spokane, with a baby in a cradleboard. H18117 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted May 26, 1902 by Martin P. Spencer, Wenatchee, Washi... More

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Zuni ornaments

Zuni woman wearing jewelry. H34048 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 804. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Ed... More

[Two Indians engaged in fight with each other, with raised hatchets]

H32007 U.S. Copyright Office. By Frederic Remington. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Remington; Indians; 2; Shelf.

[Chief Joseph, ca. 1840-1904] - Native American portrait

Full lgth., standing, facing right; holding rifle. H32270 U.S. Copyright Office Photoprint by Dr. Edward H. Latham, [Nespelem, Washington]. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Edward S. Curtis - Oz Sue, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Native American man, facing front. Curtis no. 114. LC no. 27. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Medicine Crow - Public domain portrait print

Medicine Crow, half-length portrait, seated, facing right. H52589 U.S. Copyright Office.

Jack Red Cloud, Native American, Indian Chief

Half lgth., facing right. Indian Chief. Photoprint copyrighted by the Gerhard Sisters studio, St. Louis. No. 23. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Indians.

Oh-lo Hah-wal-lah Osage chief - Public domain portrait print

H52307 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Yebichai, patient in sweat bath

Indian wrapped in blanket with medicine man and another man standing over him. No. 1058-04.

Black Horse, a Pawnee chieftain in costume, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1...

H 52202 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5783. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Terrace Homes of Hopi Indians - street scene in Oraibi, Hopi Reservati...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ariz. O-; Indians Reservations; Photog. Index; Indians Camps...; Indian tribes Hopi; Shelf.

Group of Sioux and Apache Indians

Photograph shows ten Indian chiefs, three in headdresses, wearing native clothing, at the St. Louis Exposition. No. 2695.

Edward S. Curtis - A policeman - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows half-length portrait of a Navajo man identified as a policeman. H52447 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 990. Sitter previously mis-identified as John Boone or Thic... More

Edward S. Curtis - The chief and his staff, Apsaroke Indians

[Rear view of four Apsaroke Indians on horseback] H66933 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1304-05. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Ed... More

Seminole squaw and child - Public domain portrait drawing

Seminole woman with baby in shawl, on her back. H60096 U.S. Copyright Office. Title transcribed from item. Copyright by John N. Chamberlin.

Edward S. Curtis - Among the Black Buttes--Navaho land

Three Navaho Indians on horseback, silhousetted on black buttes, in evening light. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1038-04.

[The Dancer, Crow Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

H66935 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1309-05.

Edward S. Curtis - Gaaskidi [i.e. Ganaskidi]--Navaho

Photo shows a Navajo man wearing mask of Ganaskidi, god of harvests, plenty, and of mists. H55592 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1070-04. On verso: Gaaskidi (i.e. Ganaskidi), the horn mask, God of harvest. ... More

Edward S. Curtis - An Acoma man, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Acoma man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Curtis no. 1190-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Red Cloud, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Red Cloud, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. H70901 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1473-05. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian /... More

White Man Runs Him - Public domain portrait print

Half lgth. portrait, facing left. Photoprint copyrighted by Richard Throssel. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Montana Misc. 1905; BI; Geogr.; Shelf.

The Hopi maiden, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Hopi woman, left profile. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Tonenili--Navaho

Navajo man bedecked in hemlock boughs and mask of a clown associated with the mischievous rain god Tonenili, "Water Sprinkler". H525859 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1067-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curti... More

Edward S. Curtis - The old bell tower

Bell in opening in wall, pueblo buildings in background. Curtis no. 1177-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Indians in an automobile Photographed by Edwin Levick, 108 Fulton St.,...

Photograph shows six Native American men in traditional dress inside a Pope-Toledo automobile.

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Hopi children

Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1126-04. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Geronimo - Apache war chief at the age of 78

Geronimo, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing headdress. H74628 U.S. Copyright Office.

Edward S. Curtis - Zosh Clishn--Apache

Zosh Clishn, half-length portrait, facing front, looking down, wrapped in a blanket and wearing several necklaces. H87110 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1876-06. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Oglala war party. Book illustration from Library of...

Several Oglala men, many wearing war bonnets, on horseback riding down hill. H104386 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2575-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Th... More

Edward S. Curtis - Saliva, Slow Bull (in background), Picket Pin's arm

Three Dakota men, seated or kneeling on ground, one attending to bison skull. H104330 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2517-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

[Yaqui man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Edward S. Curtis - Slow Bull's wife

Slow Bull's wife, half-length portrait, standing, facing front. H104394 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2584-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ameri... More

Stringing chili, gelatin silver print, Native American woman portrait

Photograph showing a Pueblo Indian woman, seated, stringing dried chili peppers together. H102123 U.S. Copyright Office.

Edward S. Curtis - The Mohave potter. Book illustration from Library o...

Old woman with rabbit skin blanket around shoulders, painting design on piece of pottery with yucca stem brush, Arizona. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. x2154-07. Published in: The North American Indian... More

Jamestown Exposition, 1607-1907. Norfolk. Virginia Exposition Design N...

Seal showing American Indian and European explorer shaking hands; ship in background. H90649 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo of painting? This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card t... More

Edward S. Curtis - The brush-gatherers--Arikara

Group of Arikara women in single file carrying bundles of sticks. H118563 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2864-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ame... More

Apache squaws basket work - Public domain scan /

Her-Loo-A-Lah, Apache woman, posed with willow jugs and woven wash basins. H123796 U.S. Copyright Office Title transcribed from item. No. 16.

Edward S. Curtis - For a winter campaign--Apsaroke

Two Apsaroke men, one wearing a hooded coat, the other wrapped in a blanket, on horseback, on snow-covered ground, trees and hillside in background. H113104 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2776-08. Man on lef... More

Edward S. Curtis - Red Wing--Apsaroke, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Crow Indian, Montana, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, streaks of white paint on cheeks and hair, beaded buckskin shirt trimmed with ermine tails or white rabbit fur. H113035 U.S. Copyright O... More

Edward S. Curtis - Council of War

Six Crow Indians in full regalia, on horseback, Montana. H113081 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2753-08.

Edward S. Curtis - Moving camp--Atsina

Several Atsina on horses with travois behind them, tipis in background. H1181622 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2950-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The N... More

[Fish Shows, an Apsaroke Indian, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing f...

Picryl description: Public domain image of Native Americans, Indians of North America, indigenous tribes, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Red Bird, Sioux Indian, half-length portrait, seated, facing left, we...

H116-230 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by John A. Johnson, W. Somerville, Mass.

Edward S. Curtis - [Atsina Indian on horse pulling travois]

H118632 U.S. Copyright Office. Published in: North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-1930, vol. 5, p. 140. Curtis no. 2960-08.

Pine Ridge Indians drying meat / photo made by S.D. Butcher & Son, Kea...

Photograph shows a Sioux woman standing between two frames on which meat is being dried, near tents on the far left.

[An Assiniboin camp containing four tepees with Indians seated on grou...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

[Paiute Indian group posed in front of adobe house]

National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Peter Bighart [sic], chief of the Osage tribe

Osage chief Peter Bigheart, full-length portrait, seated, facing front. J131638 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Wm. J. Boag, Pawhuska, Okla.

The Appeal to the Great Spirit, Cyrus E. Dallin, Boston, Massachusetts...

A black and white photo of a statue of a woman on a horse, America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Portrait photo of Substitute sacred head-dress--Piegan

Piegan woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wearing headdress made of ermine tails, feathers, and bunches of grass.

Edward S. Curtis - Lodge interior--Piegan

Little Plume (r) and son Yellow Kidney (c) seated on ground inside tipi, with woman. J150226 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3227-10. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Publishe... More