Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
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Title:
Plate 636 The Blackfoot Country
Date:
1926
Size:
Portfolio, 18 x 22 inches
Medium:
Vintage Photogravure
The Blackfoot were known to be fierce warriors. This Blackfoot man sits in full headdress atop a white horse. He holds what is likely a coup stick and looks out onto the vast country of his people. The river leads one’s eyes right to the face of this handsome chief. Taken by Edward Curtis in 1928, this photogravure is on display in our Aspen Art Gallery.
"No tribe which the writer has studied is so lacking in traditional knowledge of its original home and early migration. In fact, no creation and early migration legend worthy of the name has been found to exist among any of the western Sioux tribes. On the other hand, other tribes of Siouan stock, the Apsaroke, Hidatsa, and Mandan, have definite creation and migration stories, which make it clearly evident that at one time they had their home on the South Atlantic seaboard, where Siouan tribes are known to have lived well within the eighteenth century, and where indeed the remnant of the Catawba still live." - Edward Curtis
"No tribe which the writer has studied is so lacking in traditional knowledge of its original home and early migration. In fact, no creation and early migration legend worthy of the name has been found to exist among any of the western Sioux tribes. On the other hand, other tribes of Siouan stock, the Apsaroke, Hidatsa, and Mandan, have definite creation and migration stories, which make it clearly evident that at one time they had their home on the South Atlantic seaboard, where Siouan tribes are known to have lived well within the eighteenth century, and where indeed the remnant of the Catawba still live." - Edward Curtis