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Title: Piegan encampment
William Smith Mason Collection of Western Americana
Alternative Title: Volume 6, plate 207
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: The picture not only presents a characteristic view of an Indian camp on an uneventful day, but also emphasizes the grand picturesqueness of the environment of the Piegan, living as they do almost under the shadow of the towering Rocky mountains.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: wor00200.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll8/id/200
Language: English
Subject: Rocky Mountains
Piegan Indians
Photogravure
Native Americans
Mountains
Horses
Dwellings
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.6 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