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  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Navajo medicine man. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Plains Indian tipi, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.
  • Go-Shona or Yo-Shona. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1903.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Piegan man, Iron Breast, in ceremonial dress. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.
  • A Jicarilla Indian Chief, in ceremonial dress, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Salish people in a canoe on Puget Sound, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, ca. 1900.
  • A Piegan encampment, North America: tipis, including a decorated medicine tipi. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.
  • Salish people in a canoe on Puget Sound, North America. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, ca. 1900.
  • Three Navajo men proceeding as war gods: Tonenili, Tobadzischini and Nayenezgani. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Three Navajo men proceeding as war gods: Tonenili, Tobadzischini and Nayenezgani. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Piegan encampment, North America: tipis, including a decorated medicine tipi (centre). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1900.
  • A Navajo man in ceremonial dress representing the Yebichai god Zahabolzi (Zahadolzha?). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A Navajo man in ceremonial dress representing the Yebichai god Zahabolzi (Zahadolzha?). Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • A 'Yebichai Sweat' Navajo medicine ceremony: three Navajos in ceremonial dress with faces masked. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
  • Zuni medicine man, New Mexico: reclining on a blanket wearing only a loin cloth, showing his back and his face in profile. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis.
  • The shadow of a native American man wearing a head-dress emerging from flames; warning to native Americans to practice safe sex by using condoms by the American Indian Health Care Assocation. Colour lithograph by Christopher Sheriff and Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1990.
  • Bushy hawkweed (Hieracium umbellatum): flowering and fruiting plant with floral segments. Coloured engraving, c.1777, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Hyacinthus corymbosus): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1807, after S. Edwards.
  • Two examples of flowering plant stems: a clary (Salvia sclarea) and lime (Tilia species). Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Allium angulosum): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1808, after S. Edwards.
  • American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius): flowering stem, root and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • A clematis plant (Clematis cirrhosa): flowering stem. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1807, after S. Edwards.
  • Four examples of thorny or hairy plant stems: a rose, barberry, plum and stinging nettle. Coloured etching by F. Sansom, c. 1802, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Wurmbea capensis): flowering plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • A yucca plant (Yucca gloriosa): flowering stem and whole plant. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • Cape pondweed or water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyus): flowering and fruiting stems. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1810, after S. Edwards.
  • A plant (Helonias viridis): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured engraving by F. Sansom, c. 1808, after S. Edwards.