The North American Indian

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Title: The North American Indian
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Release Date: October 3, 2006 [Ebook #19449]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1
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INDIAN***

[Illustration: The Pool - Apache]
The Pool - Apache
From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis

The North American Indian
Being A Series Of Volumes Picturing And Describing The Indians Of The United States
And Alaska
Written, Illustrated, And Published By Edward S. Curtis

Edited By Frederick Webb Hodge
Foreword By Theodore Roosevelt
Field Research Conducted Under The Patronage Of J. Pierpont Morgan
In Twenty Volumes This, The First Volume, Published In The Year Nineteen Hundred
And Seven
JOHNSON REPRINT CORPORATION 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10003
JOHNSON REPRINT COMPANY LTD. Berkeley Square House, London, W1X6BA

Copyright 1907, by Edward S. Curtis
Landmarks in Anthropology, a series of reprints in cultural anthropology General Editor:
Weston La Barre
First reprinting 1970, Johnson Reprint Corporation

CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME ONE THE APACHE
HISTORICAL SKETCH HOMELAND AND LIFE MYTHOLOGY - CREATION
MYTH MEDICINE AND MEDICINE-MEN THE MESSIAH CRAZE PUBERTY RITE
DANCE OF THE GODS THE JICARILLAS HOME AND GENERAL CUSTOMS
MYTHOLOGY - CREATION MYTH MIRACLE PERFORMERS ORIGIN OF FIRE
THE NAVAHO HOME LIFE, ARTS, AND BELIEFS HISTORY MYTHOLOGY -
CREATION MYTH MIRACLE PERFORMERS LEGEND OF THE HAPPINESS
CHANT LEGEND OF THE NIGHT CHANT CEREMONIES--THE NIGHT CHANT
MATURITY CEREMONY MARRIAGE APPENDIX TRIBAL SUMMARY - THE
APACHE THE JICARILLAS THE NAVAHO SOUTHERN ATHAPASCAN
COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY INDEX

ALPHABET USED IN RECORDING INDIAN TERMS
[The consonants are as in English, except when otherwise noted]
a as in father a as in cat â as aw in awl ai as in aisle e as ey in they e as in net i as in
machine i as in sit o as in old o as in not ô as owin how oi as in oil u as in ruin u as in nut
ü as in German hütte u as in push h always aspirated q as qu in quick th as in thaw w as in
wild y as in year ch as in church sh as in shall, sash n nasal, as in French dans zh as z in
azure ' a pause

ILLUSTRATIONS
The Pool - Apache Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani - Navaho Illustration:
Theodore Roosevelt White River - Apache By The Sycamore - Apache The Fire Drill -
Apache A Noonday Halt - Navaho Apache Camp Typical Apache Ténokai - Apache At
The Ford - Apache The Bathing Pool - Apache Alchisé - Apache Mescal Hills - Apache
Primitive Apache Home Cutting Mescal - Apache Mescal - Apache Filling the Pit -
Apache The Covered Pit - Apache Apache Still Life Among the Oaks - Apache Mescal
Camp - Apache Sacred Buckskin - Apache Apache Girl The Ford - Apache Apache
Medicine-man Maternity Belt - Apache Medicine Cap and Fetish - Apache Dan Lan -
Apache Apache Village Sand Mosaic - Apache Apache Gaun Apache Maiden Lone Tree
Lodge - Jicarilla A Jicarilla A Jicarilla Feast March Jicarillas Jeditoh - Navaho Lake
Lajara - Navaho Into the Desert - Navaho Nature's Mirror - Navaho Canon Hogan -
Navaho A Drink in the Desert - Navaho Under the Cottonwoods - Navaho Cornfields in
Canon Del Muerto - Navaho The Blanket Maker - Navaho Piké{~COMBINING
BREVE~}hodiklad - Navaho Hástin Yázhe - Navaho Navaho Hogan Navaho Still Life
Navaho Medicine-man Through the Canon - Navaho Evening in the Desert - Navaho
Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti - Navaho Haschógan - Navaho Antelope Ruin -
Canon del Muerto Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani - Navaho
Tobadzischí{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni - Navaho Hasché{~COMBINING
BREVE~}zhini - Navaho Ganaskidi - Navaho Tónenili - Navaho Zahadolzhá - Navaho
Haschebaád - Navaho Gán askidi. Zahadolzhá. Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti -
Navaho Tónenili, Tobadzischí{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni, Nayé{~COMBINING
BREVE~}nezgani - Navaho Yébichai Sweat - Navaho Pikéhodiklad - Navaho Shilhné'ohli
- Navaho Zahadolzhá - Navaho Yébichai Hogán - Navaho Yébichai Dancers - Navaho
Mescal Harvest - Apache White River Valley - Apache Nalin Lage - Apache Infant
Burial - Apache Tobadzischí{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni - Navaho Ganaskidi - Navaho
Zahadolzhá - Navaho Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti, Haschebaád,
Zahadolzhá
--Navaho Navaho Women

Photogravures by John Andrew & Son, Boston.

[Illustration: Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani - Navaho]
Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani - Navaho
From Copyright Photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis

FOREWORD
In Mr. Curtis we have both an artist and a trained observer, whose pictures are pictures,
not merely photographs; whose