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Series Title: The North American Indian: being a series of Portfolios picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska

Portfolio XIX, Plate 662: Water Rite Purification, Cheyenne Animal Dance

1927

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
published by

The University Press

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Culture
America
Medium
photogravure
Credit Line
Presented by Mrs. James H. Hoyt, Elton Hoyt, II, and Mrs. Amasa Stone Mather in memory of James H. Hoyt 1995.203.39.11
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A vertically oriented sepia photogravure depicts three Cheyenne people with medium-dark skin tones at a shoreline. On our left, a person in a fringed skirt bends toward rippling water that fills the bottom half. In the center, another person leans forward holding a long pole topped with brush. To our right, a third person wears a bulky, textured garment. Text at the bottom reads, "WATER RITE PURIFICATION, CHEYENNE ANIMAL DANCE."

Portfolio XIX, Plate 662: Water Rite Purification, Cheyenne Animal Dance

1927

Edward S. Curtis, The University Press

(American, 1868–1952)
America

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