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The Natives of Florida worship the column erected by the commander on ...

Chief Athore with René Laudonnière, commander of the second French expedition to Florida, standing by column erected by Jean Ribaut during first expedition, showing Natives worshiping the column and many offeri... More

Faith, hope and purity - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a young woman wearing a white dress, with her back to a cross decorated with flowers, and with her right arm raised, holding onto the cross. L1032 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by George Stinson... More

A baptism of North American Indians - Mormons posing as the apostles o...

A Mormon baptizing an Indian in front of a group of Indians; photographer with camera in right foreground. Illus. from: Graphic, 1882 Sept. 2, p. 221.

New Mexico. The Rain Dance. Zuni Pueblo

Photograph shows Zuni men doing the Rain Dance as people watch from surrounding pueblo buildings. No. 53299.

Feast march ceremony, portrait of american indian man

Several shirtless Apache men, standing with back to camera, wearing feathered headbands, and with body paintings.

Edward S. Curtis - [Arikara medicine ceremony--the Bears]

Photo shows six men standing in line in front of cedar tree, holding rattles and singing. H118588 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from published source. Curtis no. 2890-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collecti... More

Sōshū enoshima benzaiten kaicyō sankei gunshū no zu

Japanese triptych print shows large groups of women pilgrims visiting Enoshima shrine to worship an image of Benzaiten, the Goddess of Good Fortune. They are walking towards an island on a causeway with sailboa... More

Oestlicher Theil des Thales Muna

Photograph shows pilgrims with tents, camels and livestock gathered in the Miná Valley near Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj. Title from caption list in portfolio. Plate no. XI in portfolio: Bilder aus Mekka... 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

Festivities after Ramadan in Moslem cemetery, Jaffa, Palestine

4871 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Title on recto of item.

A Southern baptism - Detroit publishing company. Public domain.

Locale and date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). Detroit Publishing Co. no. 09371. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

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

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

[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 - Placing kedan

Navajo man impersonating Yebichai, placing feather sticks around the sweat. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1062-04.

Preparing the pit of white-hot stones for the bare feet of the "fire-w...

Stereograph shows men with long poles arranging hot stones in a pit for "fire-walking" act, as spectators watch from above. H69308 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8105. U-86615. Copyright, 1906 [i.e., 1905], by Und... More

School children in front of St. James Cathedral receiving the blessing...

15,000 to 20,000 children from parochial schools marching past the cathedral. J147595 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 16310.

The holy place / lith'y. of A. Kollner cor. of Dock & 2nd, Phila ; H. ...

Print shows, at center, a priest putting incense into a censer on "The Altar of Incense", a large portable stand with carrying rods on two sides; a small censer sits on the floor nearby. On the left is "The Gol... More

The tabernacle in the wilderness, and plan of the encampment. Exod. XI...

Print shows a temporary tabernacle building surrounded by a curtained wall in a large clearing with tents comprising the "First Division Camp of Judah" on the east side, the "Second Division Camp of Reuben" on ... More

Aztec calendar stone, City of Mexico

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51150. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

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

Icon A Southern baptism, public domain photograph

Public domain image of coupe, engagement, family, 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.

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

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 - Sweat lodge frame - Cheyenne

J150281 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3253-10. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curt... More

Edward S. Curtis - [Sun dance pledgers--Cheyenne]

Two young men in ceremonial paint. J150280 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 3250-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis... More

Nuhlimkilaka--Koskimo, Native Americans of British Columbia

Kwakiutl person wearing an oversize mask and hands representing a forest spirit, Nuhlimkilaka, ("bringer of confusion").

["Spirit" photograph, supposedly taken during a seance, actually a dou...

H4015 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by John K. Hallowell. Superimposed images are numbered in margin. No. 9. Annenberg batch 2

Idol, Teoyaomiqui i.e. Coatlicue

Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-31419. Attribution to Jackson based on Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898) In courtyard of National Museum. "6295"... More

Moki rain maker and chief in costume, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904

No. 5786. H52205 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by William H. Rau.

[Humorous picture showing a monster on a boat or raft collecting Chine...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.

Sōshū enoshima benzaiten kaicyō sankei gunshū no zu

Plantation no. 7 Rockville Plantation Negro church, Charleston, S.C.

Photograph shows a congregation of African Americans gathered in the interior of Zion Chapel, an Episcopal church built for slaves in 1858, at Rockville Plantation on Wadmalaw Island near Charleston, S.C. A min... More

Moses, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Moses, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, holding a short staff in his right hand and the tablet with the ten commandments; rays of light appear to be issuing from his forehead. E9446 U.S. C... More

In quiet prayer - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a half-length portrait of a young woman in prayer in an outdoor setting. L1036 U.S. Copyright Office. Publication date based on copyright statement and/or copyright stamp on item. Copyright stamp, ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Yebichai prayer, E

Navajo Indians in costumes, dancing. H87255 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2066-06.

Edward S. Curtis - [Hu Kalowa Pi-Removes the covering]

Interior of tepee, man kneeling on ground remouving buffalo hide around skull on ground, another male behind altar warming hands by fire. H104329 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Medicine Man (Slow Bull)

Slow Bull, full-length portrait, facing front, holding pipe, buffalo skull at his feet. H104318 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2505-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Publi... More

Edward S. Curtis - A burial platform--Apsaroke

H113092 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2764-08. On verso: The grave of Hairy Wolfs wife. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. ... More

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Incense--Atsina

Four Atsina men, each wrapped in a blanket, seated on ground, one with arm and fist raised skyward, one holding a wing. H118646 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2974-08. This photograph is similiar to the imag... More

Edward S. Curtis - Night medicine men

Photo shows Arikara medicine ceremony with four night men dancing. H118584 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2885-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North A... More

Edward S. Curtis - Masked dancer--Cowichan

Dancer wearing oversize mask, three rings of feathers in front of clothing, holding a rattle. J182513 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 3434-12. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).... More

Edward S. Curtis - The Clowns, animal dance--Cheyenne

J293356 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 19, p. 134.

[Two Jewish men and two women standing in front of the Wailing Wall, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

From the rising unto the setting of the sun the Lord's name is to be p...

Two lions holding Magen David, with Hebrew text. 9448S U.S. Copyright Office. Exhibited: "From the Ends of the Earth : Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, 1988-1989. Exhibi... More

Samarkandskiia drevnosti. Grobnitsa sviatago Kussama ibni Abassa (Shak...

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' arkheologicheskaia︢, 1871-1872, part 1, vol. 1, pl. 62.

Mexico, Aztec idol, Teoyaomiqui Coatlicue (statue)

In album prepared by Detroit Photographic Co. to use as a catalog in its office. Detroit Publishing Co., no. 51152. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1955.

The Prayer at Valley Forge From the original painting by Henry Brueckn...

Print showing George Washington praying under trees at Valley Forge; military camp in background. U17149 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1889 by Joseph Laing. Copyright stamp and number appear on lower right corner.

Palestine, Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarch

Photo shows the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Harootiun Vehabedian, seated, facing front, wearing hooded vestment, adorned with crosses and other medals on his chest, holding a strand of beads. On Mount: No... More

Coptic pilgrims from Egypt, bathing in the Holy Waters of the Jordan, ...

D8976 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from recto of item. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.

Edward S. Curtis - Buffalo dancers

Costumed dancers wearing dance bustles of Tewa sun god made of turkey feathers. On verso: Buffalo dance. Curtis no. 1111-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Water rite purification, Cheyenne animal dance

Three Cheyenne dancers in ceremonial dress, bend towards water. J293340 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Sea... More

Sister Teresa, at Pentecostal street service / Espada.

Phootgraph shows a woman speaking into a microphone surrounded by groups of people in the neighborhood of East New York, Brooklyn, New York. Published in: The Puerto Rican diaspora : themes in the survival of ... More

Farewell to the old church, New York City

African-American congregation in front of Abyssinian Baptist Church at Waverly Place, New York City.

An Offering before Captain Cook in the Sandwich Islands / Webber del. ...

Captain James Cook and four of his men with natives. Public domain photograph - historical image of Hawaii, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Shotoku Taishi - Public domain portrait painting

Drawing shows Shōtoku Taishi, full-length, standing, facing left. Unsigned, possibly by Kano, 1878. From the "Religion" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part... More

[Armenian monastery of Surb Karapet (the Holy Precursor, St. John the ...

(Source: L. Avdoyan). On item: View of St. Charles Monastery in Moush. Copyrighted by Vartan A. Hampikian, New York. Monastery destroyed in 1915. No. 11.

De vita et beneficijs Saluatoris Iesu Christi deuotissimas meditatione...

Rosenwald 151 Goff M-433 Hain-Copinger 10994 BM 15th cent., II, p. 354 (IA.6085) Bound with [Bertoldus, Dominican]. Horologiu[m] deuotionis circa vitam Christi. Augsburg, 1489. LC copy rubricated. A few margina... More

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Invocation--Sioux

Photographs shows a Dakota man, wearing breechcloth, holding pipe, with right hand raised skyward. H104321 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2508-07. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congr... More

Sōshū enoshima benzaiten kaicyō sankei gunshū no zu

Moses, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Enterrement d'une femme Nègre ; Convoi funèbre d'un fils de roi Nègre ...

Illustrations showing men and women carrying palanquin with the body of a black woman inside church for burial and the funeral procession for the son of a black king. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique... More

Aztec idol, Teoyaomiqui [Coatlicue (statue)], mammoth plate negative

Picryl description: Public domain image related to Central America History, Aztec, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Pre-Columbus America free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edward S. Curtis - The Oath--Apsaroke

Three Apsaroke men gazing skyward, two holding rifles, one with object skewered on arrow pointed skyward, bison skull at their feet. H118535 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2627-08. Men identified by Library ... More

Edward S. Curtis - The mythic tree

Tree in field. No. 2814-08. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, suppl. v. 4, p. 188.

Athens - Greek chapel, Greece

Photograph shows women and children with a horse-drawn cart in front of a chapel. Filed in: Greece Buildings, monuments and scenic views. No. 169. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Praying to the Spirits at Crater Lake--Klamath

Klamath Indian chief in feather headdress standing on mountain overlooking Crater Lake, Oregon.

Antelope priests chanting at Kisi Moki snake dance

Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 53813. Public domain photograph of 20th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Praying around the fire with rattles]

Group of Natives gathered around a campfire, some appear to be holding rattles; dugout canoes on river in background.

The Masked Kachinas (Hopi Indian "Rain-makers"), Village of Shonghopav...

H29834 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Man wearing a sokutai, a long ceremonial robe, offering branches to a...

Japanese text inscribed on the left, outside the image box. Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner of paper mount: Kano Nov. '78. From the "Religion" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: Dav... More

Westliche Seite des Berges ʻArafah

Photograph shows pilgrims with camels and livestock gathered at a rest station near ʻArafah (Mount Arafat) east of Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj. Pilgrims are wearing Ihrām clothing. After gathering at ʻ... More

Scene in Magnolia (colored) cemetery, Aiken, S.C.

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, coffin, grave, funeral, burial, monument, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Edward S. Curtis - Paqusilahl--Qagyuhl

Dancer representing Paqusilahl ("man of the ground embodiment"), wearing a mask and shirt covered with hemlock boughs, representing paqus, a wild man of the woods. J197489 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 356... More

Korea. Posts along road which were carved to prevent devils from passi...

Photograph shows two men with rifles and ammunition belts standing between two carved posts on a mountain road. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - [Sia buffalo dancer. Full-length, standing, facing ...

J282695 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30 suppl., v. 16, pl. 560 .

Baptist congregation, Alma Plantation, False River, La.

Handwritten on back: "Baptist Congregation, Alma Plantation, False River, La., July, 1934." Forms part of: Lomax collection of photographs depicting folk musicians, primarily in the southern United States and t... More

["Spirit" photograph, supposedly taken during a seance, actually a dou...

H4015 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by John K. Hallowell. Superimposed images are numbered in margin. No. 9. Annenberg batch 2

Moses, Head and Shoulders Portrait

The pipe dance and the tomahawk dance / F. Barinsou ; painted at the t...

Native men performing the pipe dance and the tomahawk dance. Illus. in: The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians / by J.O. Lewis. Philade... More

Girl praying - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows a young girl spying on another young girl who is praying in a grove of trees with a church in the background. Inscribed in lithographic crayon at bottom: M[?] should like to have the [?] by tomorro... More

Religioznye obriady i obychai Tadzhikov. Sekta "Dzhakhrie"

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 65.

New York City--the Chanucka celebration by the Young Men's Hebrew Asso...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1880 Jan. 3, p. 316.

Mexico, Aztec idol, Teoyaomiqui [Coatlicue (statue)]

Historic Sites Public domain photograph of statue, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - Yebichai prayer, C

Navajo men impersonating myth characters during Yebichai dance. H87253 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 2064-06.

The mythic stone--Hidatsa North Dakota

Rock in field in the Missouri Valley of North Dakota. Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Edward S. Curtis - [Sun dance in progress--Cheyenne]

J150279 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1435-10. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 6, p. 128.

Sacrificial stone, Detroit publishing company photo

Photo shows the Stone of Tizoc when it was located in the former National Musueum in the patio of north wing of the National Palace. (Source: Roberto Duarte, 2012) Corresponding glass transparency (with same se... More

Mary Rawls interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana M. ...

Mary Frazier Rawls, born in 1927, shared experiences of her life-long circus career. She began trouping with her parents at a young age and would go on to perform on the high wire for much of her career. Mary t... More

The Masked Kachinas (Hopi Indian "Rain-makers"), Village of Shonghopav...

H29834 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mokuboji uchigawa gozensaihata - Public domain Japanese woodblock prin...

Print shows two women disembarking a small boat and approaching a temple building in the Gozen gardens, with pedestrian bridge over the inlet and pine trees along the shore.

Obychai Sredneaziiattsev. Chtenie Korana (Khotli [sic] Kuran)

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the Russian Empire, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

Shofar Tekuo [i.e. Tokea]

Edward S. Curtis - Sand painting, Wind Doctor's ceremony--Navaho

H55605 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1043-04. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curt... More

Jewish New Year, 1907, with prayer, shawl, & Bible

Man, wearing shawl, looking at Bible with boy in New York City. George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 1683-6.

[Spirit photograph showing half-length portrait of John K. Hallowell, ...

Spirit photograph shows portrait of John K. Hallowell and super-imposed faces of fifteen deceased people including George Washington and Queen Victoria. H2332 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by John K. Hallow... More

Mary Rawls interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana M. ...

Jew new year - boy in prayer shawl

Photograph shows a young boy wearing prayer shawl and holding book, standing outside building, East Side, New York City. Bain News Service photograph. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of... More

Dancing dervish R.M.H Egypt - Public domain portrait drawing

Drawing shows an Egyptian man practicing Sufi whirling meditation. In: Nile journal, biography VI. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:100) Forms part... More