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Title: An offering at the waterfall, Nambe
William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana
Alternative Title: Volume 17, plate 599
Creator: Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
Publication Information: E. S. Curtis (Seattle); The University Press (Cambridge, Mass)
Honnold Mudd Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: West-ography, re-imaging the West
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Honnold Mudd Library Special Collections at https://library.claremont.edu/scl/
Description: Feather offerings are deposited in numerous shrines, buried in the earth near the pueblo, and placed in springs, streams, and lakes, for the purpose of winning the favor of the cloud-gods.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: wor00401.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll8/id/401
Language: English
Subject: Clothing and dress
Manners and customs
Marine photography
Nambe (N.M.)
Native Americans
New Mexico
Photogravure
Source: Photogravure, 22.25 x 18.25 inches: The North American Indian; being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska, 970.6 C942 vol.17 plates, William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library
Relation: West-ography, re-imaging the West - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll8

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