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[Interior of Canadian Indian dwelling; women are weeping over dying wa...

Illus. in: André Thevet, Les Singularitiés de la France Antarctique, autrement nommé Amerique (Paris 1558), page 86. Ref. copies may be in SSF(Gr) - INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA CANADA 16 ? This record contains unv... More

Theodor de Bry - [The tomb of the weroans]

An Algonquian burial house showing bodies on a raised platform and a priest squatting by a fire beneath the platform. Illus. in: Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wi... More

[A noblewoman of Pomeiock] / T.B., engraving, Library of Congress

Native woman of Pomeiock carrying a clay vessel, and her daughter holding a doll and a rattle.

[The queen-elect is brought to the king]

Native men carrying the queen seated on a throne supported by a litter; trumpeters lead the procession which is followed by young women carrying baskets of fruit and by a contingent of bodyguards. Illus. in: Br... More

Battle between Portuguese and Indians and Garasu near the harbor of Ma...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, Frankfurt, p. 5. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Illustrations of Johannes Staden's description of the Tuppin Inwa Ind...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 70. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The women and children [nude Indians] eat the intestines of the killed...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, pt. 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 87. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Map of northern coast of S. America, showing mouths of Amazon and Ori...

Illus. in: Reys-Boeck van het rijcke, Brasilien (Dordrecht?,1624). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, and subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Maps; South America; Snakes; Braz... More

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perc...

Illus. in: Atlas geographicvs maior ... / per Iohannem Baptistam Homannvm. Norimbergae : Curantibus Homannianis Heredibus, 1753-59 [i.e., 1781 ; v. 1, 1759], no. 139. Published in: The American Revolution in ... More

Lee Moorhouse - Lucy Coyote - Public domain portrait

Photograph shows Lucy Coyote, an American Indian woman, half-length portrait, facing right. 1810 U.S. Copyright Office. On back: "Photo by Lee Moorhouse." Copyrighted Jan. 19, 1900 by Lee Moorhouse. No. 98. WSUNA

A Kalapuya man - a native of Oregon / drawn by A.T. Agate ; W.H. Douga...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Kalapuya man. Illus. in: Narrative of the United States exploring expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 / By Charles Wilkes... In five volumes, with thirteen... More

Pottawatomie [?] Indians in 503, Glass negative photograph, American C...

An old black and white photo of two men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sac & Fox Indian Chiefs / Group of Indians

An old black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Lone Wolf and his wife Etla, Kiowa Indians]

An old black and white photo of a man and a woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Diegeños - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Illus. in: United States. Dept. of the Interior. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey ... by William H. Emory. 34th Cong., 1st sess. House Ex Doc. 135. Washington: C. Wendell, printer, 1857-... More

Pimo women - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

[Group of Native Americans (possibly Winnebago) wearing blankets, some...

On verso: C.L. Hamilton. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Detail of "Progress of Civilization," east pediment of the Senate win...

Photograph of maquette showing Indian mother and child. In album: Benjamin Brown French "Photographs," p. 117. Reference copy in LOT 12251, v. 1. Original in PR 12 LOT 12251.

Indian lodge at Medicine Creek, Kansas--scene of the late Indian peace...

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Nov. 16., p. 724.

[Winnebago man, full-length, seated, facing front, with blanket around...

No. 35. Possibly photographed by C.L. Hamilton. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Montauk man, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly l...

Copyright by A. Zeno Shindler. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Engagement of Colonel Forsyth's command with the Indians at Small Isla...

Battle between Indians and Colonel Forsyth and his men at Small Island, Kansas. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 Oct. 17, p. 669, bottom.

[Group of Winnebago Indians on hillside]

No. 135. Possibly photographed by C.L. Hamilton. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Cherokee payments(?). Several men seated around table counting coins;...

Public domain photograph related to Native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Louis the interpreter & matador de los Apaches Pasquial, Pimo [i.e., P...

Three-quarter length portraits. Titles transcribed from mount. Illus. in album: Series of photographic views and portraits of Arizona and Arizona Indian tribes / Charles Gentile. Nos. 123 (bottom) and 126 (top).

Conquering the Indians / Chicago Eng. Co.

Indian handing tomahawk to U.S. Army officer. Illus. in: History of the border wars of two centuries, embracing a narrative of the wars with the Indians from 1750 to 1874 / Charles Richard Tuttle. Chicago : Pub... More

[...]ing to Pueblo, Wolpi, Arizona / Hillers photo.

Hopi Indians along steps up rocks, leading to pueblo on mesa, Walpi, Arizona.

Indians representing various newspapers waving weapons of "abuse" and ...

Title devised by cataloger. "On the warpath" in handwritten notation on mat. No accession number. This catalog record contains preliminary or unverified data from a project done in BRS software, ca. 1985. mm / 860224.

Jupiter Light, William Henry Jackson photograph

Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 08038. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

[Sitting Bull, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing front, ho...

Photo copyrighted 1881 by O. S. Goff. Caption on mount: Sitting Bull.

Caricature, The food of our youth / J.K., public domain cartoon image

Print shows a mean-spirited infant boy in a cradle labeled "Infant Indian Exterminators", armed with a rifle, knives, and handguns, feeding from a large bottle filled with "Dime Novel" and "5 ct. Paper[back]" l... More

[The impassioned heroine flashed her black eyes with fire of scorn, an...

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1932:0033). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Onnalinda / J.H. McNaughton. London : Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1886, p. 113.

Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses / C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C.

Young Man Afraid of His Horses, full-length portrait, seated, facing front. 5948W U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.M. Bell.

Elk Tongue and his daughter, A-ke-a (A Nice Walk)

Elk Tongue, wearing war bonnet while crouching with bow and arrow in hands, and his daughter, A-ke-a, standing, both facing front. 32674W U.S. Copyright Office.

Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. The old governor

Half lgth., facing right. Photoprint copyrighted by Charles F. Lummis. No. 606. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

A man of Fiji, head and shoulders profile

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

Calendar for 1898 by Frederic Remington / Frederic Remington.

Cover of calendar showing Indian on horseback. Reproduction of artwork by Frederic Remington. Copyright by Robert Howard Russell.

Morrision's production of the new sensational melo-drama, The Indian

Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Ko-ya-ma-shi make merry after the dancing of the Shalako / Ben Wit...

Spectators watch dancers in plaza of pueblo. 3137-8 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Ben Wittick. No. 642.

[Parrum - Ute man, half-length portrait, facing front, holding feather...

66435 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph by Rose and Hopkins, Denver, Colorado. No. 167.

Edward S. Curtis - Seal hunters in canoe at Glacier Bay / Curtis.

Two native Alaskan people in boat. 61316 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X225a.

[American Indian and African American students at Hampton Institute, H...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[John Comes Again, half-length portrait, facing left]

No. 274. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A Klickitat brave / Gifford, The Dalles, Oregon.

Indian, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing native dress. 40968 U.S. Copyright Office. WSUNA

[Last Horse, half-length portrait, facing right; wearing body paint an...

No. 410. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Comes Again [Sioux?], portrait of american indian man

1/2 length, peace pipe in hand, facing left. 74152 U.S. Copyright Office Photo by Heyn. #399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Indian tribes Sioux?; Indians Pe... More

[Sun Flower, Native American man, half-length , facing left]

No. 326. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Nez Percé man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing bea...

Edward S. Curtis Collection. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[American Indian and African American students at Hampton Institute, H...

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[Pee-a-rat and baby - Utes. Half-length portrait of woman, facing fron...

64927 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 150. Public domain photograph of mother and child portrait, young woman, infant, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lee Moorhouse - Yakima squaw and papoose

Photograph shows a Yakima Indian woman, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, wrapped in blanket, holding a baby in a cradleboard. 6684 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted Mar. 24, 1900 by Lee Moorhouse. ... More

Geronimo Apache cheif [sic] and his two nieces, died Feb. 16th [19]09 ...

Geronimo, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, posed, with his two nieces standing at his sides. H74628 U.S. Copyright Office. Hand-colored.

Native North American Child [album cover]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Eskimo women, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

[Whirling Horse, American Indian], portrait of american indian man

Whirling Horse, probably a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, half-length portrait, facing left, wearing headdress. LOT 10136 (location of corresponding print made by the Library of Congress Photoduplicat... More

Papoose White Bull / Heyn & Matzen, Chic.

Portrait of baby in beaded cradleboard propped up against studio prop tree trunk. D10828 U.S. Copyright Office. Photo by Heyn and Matzen, no. 1643. Title transcribed from item.

Lee Moorhouse - [Po-ca-tel-lo, Yakima or Umatilla Indian, from Oregon,...

1811 U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint by Lee Moorhouse. WSUNA Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The King of the Diomede Islands and Louis Levy - Frank G. Carpenter co...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Edward S. Curtis - Tewa girls - Drawing. Public domain image.

Two Tewa girls standing outside pueblo building. On verso: Tewa girls Moki (Hopi) girls on steps. Curtis no. 684. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ameri... More

Edward S. Curtis - Snake priest / E.S. Curtis.

Native American man seated, three-quarter-length, facing front. No. 672.

White Dog - American Indian - Public domain portrait photograph

An old black and white photo of a native woman. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Eskimo children playing], Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Eskimo child, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

Navajo Indian blanket - Public domain textile painting

Date range from LOT 12999 group record. No. 207. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

John Alvin Anderson - Chief American Horse

Lakota Sioux Indian in feather headdress, half-length portrait, facing left. D24370 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.A. Anderson. No. 934.

Lee Moorhouse - Canoeing on the Columbia

Two Indians in canoe in river. From Moorhouse. WSUNA Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The sun vow - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

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

Eskimo cliff dweller settlement, Alaska - Frank G. Carpenter collectio...

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Original copyright holder: Lomen Bros. Photo by Lomen Bros., Nome. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Ch... More

Strikes on Top [Am, Indian Chief]

A black and white photo of a native american man. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sarcees Indians on the prairies of the great Northwest, Alberta, Canad...

Three Sarsi Indians, two on horseback, tipis in background. D7432 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Portrait photo of [Cetan Waste, Wipetila and Pte]

Indian-family: man holding pipe, woman and child in native dress.

[Indian man, woman, and child with a trader showing a blanket]

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Eskimo girl, Alaska - Public domain portrait print

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

[Gobuguoy, Walpi girl, half-length portrait, facing front, hair tied i...

Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 700. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indians fishing in the rapids, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-29537. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue J (1901). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013076. Gift; State Historical Society of Co... More

Supai Charlie, Native Americans

Havasupai man standing in front of branch wickiup. Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Printing press room, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pagre, Ute - Public domain print

Half-length portrait of young Ute man. H23965 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by H.H. Tammen.

Pueblo Indian man - Public domain scan of print

Copyright by D.T. Duckwall, Jr., Albuquerque, New Mexico. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pueblo Indians selling pottery, Native Americans

Photograph shows Native American women, posing with large jars on their heads, offering pottery for sale to tourists. Travelers and railroad staff pose with them beside a train. Date from copyright statement.... More

Indian playmates - Public domain portrait print

Four Pueblo Indian children. Copyright by D.T. Duckwall, Jr., Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Indian chief / by Gertrude Käsebier., portrait of american indian man

Illustration shows portrait of Native American man in headdress and robe.

Indian with his war horse - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows portrait of Native American man in traditional dress riding a horse. H20616 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16. WSUNA

Edward S. Curtis - [Zuni portrait], Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Zuni woman. H34053 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 813.

[Chitto Harjo or Crazy Snake, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing fron...

H39695 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Harrie D. Blake. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - [Zuni water carriers]. Book illustration from Libra...

Two females, full length, wearing blankets, pots on heads. H37678 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 810. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Cu... More

Edward S. Curtis - Mohave--Judith, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Mohave woman, facing front. H34006 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward Sheriff Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Jicarilla girl

Native American girl, half-length portrait, standing, facing front. No. 1250-04.

"Mickaninies Kow-Kow", Native American woman portrait

Inuit Eskimo woman breast-feeding two babies. H50564 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Frank H. Nowell.

Edward S. Curtis - The vanishing race--Navaho

Photograph shows Navajos on horseback riding away from photographer. Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son, c1904. Curtis no. 984. Also available as a platinum photographic print (Print... More

Edward S. Curtis - Many Goats, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Many Goats, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 991.

Struggle of a frontier militiaman with a Mohawk brave

Title transcribed from item. Illustration from: Our pioneers, by Augustus L. Mason, 1904.

Minnehaha view, photochrome print postcard.. Photochrom print, 1880-18...

Copyright 1904 by Detroit Photographic Co. Detroit Publishing Co. no. "54124". Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection. More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.... More

INDIANS: REDWATER AND GROUP - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a group of native americans. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Navajo Indian ceremony of 9-day chant, Arizona]

Erecting the medicine-lodge. Photoprint copyrighted by Simeon Schwemberger. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Edward S. Curtis - Hopi Angel, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photo shows a Hopi girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Title from caption card and item. Curtis no. 1133-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Cohit Songwi, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Tewa girl. H71078 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1824-05.

Oyi-tsa, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Duck White, Summer Cacique of Santa Clara, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front.

[Tewa Indian guard at top of the kiva stairs, San Ildefonso, New Mexic...

H71007 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1736-05. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl., v. 17, pl. 584.

Edward S. Curtis - A Taos woman

H70938 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1636-05. Inscribed on verso: Parbea. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seat... More

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