1910 --- A portrait of a young Wishram woman wearing a dentalium shell nose ornament, a headdress with Chinese coins and a beaded dress, published in Volume VIII of The North American Indian (1911) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © Stapleton Collection/Corbis
1921, USA --- A 1921 portrait of a Native American woman named White Deer, dressed in a conglomerate "Indian" costume. --- Image by © E.O. Hoppé/Corbis
Portrait of Buffalo Bill Cody with Sioux Indians in full dress. --- Image by © CORBIS
1908 --- A photograph published in a portfolio supplementing Volume V of The North American Indian (1909) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1908 --- A portrait of a Crow man published in Volume IV of The North American Indian (1909) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1900 --- Heavy Shield by Edward S. Curtis --- Image by © CORBIS
1904 --- A photograph of a figure representing Ga'askidi, the Navajo god of harvest, whose name means "hunchback." This image was published in Volume I of The North American Indian (1907) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1921 --- A portrait published in Volume XII of The North American Indian (1922) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1910 --- A photograph published in Volume VIII of The North American Indian (1911) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1903 --- Chief Joseph by Edward S. Curtis --- Image by © CORBIS
1904, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, USA --- A photograph of Sheep Mountain on the Pine Ridge Reservation, published in Volume III of The North American Indian (1908) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © Stapleton Collection/Corbis
1928, Nunivak Island, Alaska, USA --- A photograph published in Volume XX of The North American Indian (1930) by Edward S. Curtis. | Location: Nunivak, Alaska Territory, USA. --- Image by © CORBIS
1899 --- A portrait of a Lummi woman published in Volume IX of The North American Indian (1913) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1915 --- A photograph published in Volume XI of The North American Indian (1916) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1904 --- A photograph of a figure representing Haschogan, the Navajo house god, published in Volume I of The North American Indian (1907) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1905 --- A portrait of a Navajo man by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1905, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, USA --- A portrait of a San Ildefonso man published in Volume XVII of The North American Indian (1926) by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1900 --- A portrait of a Blackfoot man wearing a horned headdress adorned with ermine skins. --- Image by © CORBIS
ca. 1908 --- A portrait of a Crow man named Flathead Woman by Edward S. Curtis. --- Image by © CORBIS
1910 --- Curtis' notes: Wealthy members of the tribes living on the Umatilla reservation in Oregon spare no expense in bedecking themselves and their mounts on gala occasions. The articles of adornment are usually of deerskin, or of commercial blankets on which designs are worked in beads. --- Image by © Stapleton Collection/Corbis