Representative Image
The bulk of the collection comprises photographic prints, lantern slides, and one map documenting the Harriman Alaska Expedition from May to July of 1899. These photographs were made by members of the expedition, most prominently its official photographer Edward S. Curtis, funder Edward Henry Harriman, and lead scientist C. Hart Merriam. They depict Alaskan scenery, members of the expedition, and Native people and settlements that they encountered. Mary Harriman Rumsey's collection also includes later platinum prints of American Indians made and signed by Curtis (1900, 1903), photographs of glaciers in Alaska by Dora Keen (1914), a photograph of a painting by Charles Schreyvogel (1903), and a photograph of White Pass by Arthur Clarence Pillsbury (1898).
The collection is arranged in three series: photographs relating to the Harriman Expedition; photographs of Alaska that were not made on the Harriman Expedition; and other photographs relating to American Indians. The Harriman series is arranged in a rough chronological order.
Mary Harriman Rumsey (1881-1934) was an important American philanthropist and the oldest child of railroad tycoon Edward Henry Harriman. In 1901, while studying at Barnard College, she co-founded the Junior League for the Promotion of Settlement Movements (later named the Junior League of the City of New York), which facilitated charitable work by privileged women among New York's impoverished groups. Rumsey's efforts lead to the establishment of the Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. in 1921. Additionally, Rumsey co-founded
In 1899, Mary Harriman was among the Harriman family members who accompanied the Harriman Alaska Expedition. Originally planned as a bear-hunting trip for the family, the expedition, was funded by Edward Henry Harriman and organized with the help of ethnographer and naturalist Clinton Hart Merriam. The party of accomplished scientists, naturalists, photographers, artists, and writers cruised from British Columbia to Siberia and back on a private ship, the
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Mary Harriman Rumsey Collection of Harriman Alaska Expedition Photographs, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Processed by Sarah Ganderup, Contract Archivist in 2014, with funding from the Smithsonian Women's Committee. Additional item level processing by Rachel Menyuk, Processing Archivist, in 2018.
This collection was donated as part of the estate of Mary Harriman Rumsey to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in May 1934.
Photographs of the Harriman Alaska Expedition may have originally been collected by Edward Henry Harriman.
The Smithsonian Institution Archives, University of Washington Special Collections, and Library of Congress have photo albums relating to the Harriman Alaska Expedition. The SI Archives also holds the Harriman Alaska Expedition Collection and photogravure plates from the
NMAI holds photogravure plates and proofs made from Edward Curtis's later photographs and Frederick Dellenbaugh's expedition notes in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation records. The National Anthropological Archives also holds Curtis photographs and papers.
The following materials were also part of Mary Harriman Rumsey's estate, gifted to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in 1934. Where possible, their current locations have been noted.
This series contains photographs made from May 31 to July 30, 1899, during the Harriman Alaska Expedition. Photographers represented in the series are Edward S. Curtis (official photographer for the expedition), Edward Henry Harriman, C. Hart Merriam, W. B. Devereux, William H. Averell, Wesley Coe, Leon J. Cole, Grove Karl Gilbert, and Robert Ridgway; some photographs also may have been made by Curtis's assistant for the voyage, D. J. Inverarity. There is also a map documenting the passage of the expedition's ship, the
Most of the prints were likely removed from one of the expedition's souvenir albums, or at least were made in preparation for the albums, and they are duplicated in the lantern slides. Many of the lantern slides represent unique images and many are are hand-colored.
The following is a rough chronology of the expedition, based on PBS's
P10880, L00700
ALASKA with parts of SIBERIA CANADA and WASHINGTON showing Route of the Harriman Alaska Expedition
Color map showing the route of the Harriman Expedition in 1899 from Seattle, throughout Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Siberia, and return. Map is a published product, marked with longitude and lattitude and degrees.
Map of Alaska, showing course of Harriman trip
Image of a color map showing the route of the Harriman Expedition in 1899 from Seattle, throughout Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Siberia, and return. Map is a published product, marked with longitude and lattitude and degrees.
P10882-P10889, L00687-L00699
The "Bad Lands"
View of a rock bluff, with brush covered base in Colorado.
Continental Divide on Oregon Short Lone, Union Pacific Railroad
View of Edward Henry Harriman's private train on the Continental Divide, Wyoming, showing train engine and cars seen from the side on the tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad. Train seems to be stopped, with passengers outside in prairie-like setting.
Shoshone Falls and the Lava Plain
Aerial view of the Shoshone Falls from the north, with falls in the foreground, mesas in middleground and mountains in the far distance in Idaho.
Shoshone Falls
Aerial view of the Shoshone Falls from the west, with falls in center, and mesas or low mountains in the background in Idaho.
Shoshone Falls
View from the shore of the top of Shoshone Falls, with large boulder in waterway, low mountains and mesas on opposite side of falls in Idaho.
Shoshone Falls
View from the shore of the Shoshone Falls, with island in center, low mountains on opposite side of falls in Idaho
Shoshone Falls
View of Shoshone Falls, with tree-covered bluff in foreground and bluffs beyond in Idaho.
Shoshone Falls
View of Shoshone Falls, with tree-covered bluff in foreground and bluffs beyond in Idaho.
Columbia river in flood
Columbia River in flood, with view of trees and rock formations under water; bluffs and woods on opposite shore in Oregon.
The Ferry. Snake River
Harriman Expedition members aboard a flat bottomed ferry with wooden ballustrates crossing the Snake River. Excursion horse-drawn wagon in the rear of the ferry; passengers and horses in front. "Dan.......... and CARLO S. SEVERI"(?) handpainted on gate of ferry in Idaho.
Snake River canyon below Shoshone Falls
Canyon of the Snake River below Shoshone Falls, showing river with high rocky bluffs on either shore in Idaho.
Fish Wheel. Columbia River
Fish or salmon wheel on a raft in the Columbia River, Oregon. Fish wheels were water-powered nets that scooped up migrating salmon and steelhead that were funneled into the "wheel." After netting, the fish were dropped into a holding bin.
Salmon wheel. Columbia river
Fish or salmon wheel on a raft seen from the side in the Columbia River in Oregon. Fish wheels were water-powered nets that scooped up migrating salmon and steelhead that were funneled into the "wheel." After netting, the fish were dropped into a holding bin. Note the size of this device by locating the man standing on the deck.
These include images of a boat drill aboard the ship, John Burroughs lecturing, and the ship's smoking room.
P10976-P10980, L00704, L00706, L00708-L00711
Captain Doran, S.S. George W. Elder
Captain Peter Doran posed on the steamship S. S. George W. Elder, holding a sextant, on the coast of Alaska. Men sit in lifeboats behind him.
Burroughs and group on S.S. George W. Elder
Members of the expedition in a lifeboat aboard the steamship S. S. George W. Elder, June 1899, on the coast of Alaska. Man on the right is possibly John Burroughs; "No. 1" painted on lifeboat.
Fire drill on S. S. George W. Elder. Starks, Burroughs, Devereux and the Harriman family
Passengers lined up on deck, wearing life preservers, during a fire drill on the steamship S. S. George W. Elder on the coast of Alaska. Included in the image are "Starks, Burroughs, Mrs A Harriman, Beth, Cornelia, Devereux, Averell, Roland".
Fire drill on S.S. George W. Elder. Harriman family
Passengers lined up on deck, wearing life preservers, during a fire drill on the steamship S. S. George W. Elder on the coast of Alaska. From left: Mary Harriman, Cornelia Harriman, Dorethea Draper, Mrs. A. (possibly Mrs. Averell), Elizabeth Averell, Roland Harriman, Carol Harriman.
Fire drill on S.S. George W. Elder
Passengers lined up on deck, wearing life preservers, during a fire drill on the steamship S. S. George W. Elder on the coast of Alaska.
P10890-P10895, L00701, L00712-L00718
S.S. George W. Elder of the Harriman Alaska Expedition
Full side view of the steamship S. S. George W. Elder, probably sailing the Inside Passage of British Columbia, with snow-covered mountains in the background, and icefloes in the water.
Inside passage. British Columbia
View of rocky and tree-covered mountains along the Inside Passage of Bristish Columbia, perhaps taken from the deck of the steamship S.S. George W. Elder.
Sunset. Inside passage. British Columbia
View of the sunset over the water of the Inside Passage of British Columbia with mountains in the background.
Lowe Inlet. British Columbia
View of Lowe Inlet, on the Inside Passage of British Columbia, with wooded shores and snow-covered mountains in the background.
Lowe Inlet. British Columbia
View of a family part, members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, canoeing in Lowe Inlet on the Inside Passage of British Columbia, with wooded area and snow-covered mountains in background.
Lowe Inlet. British Columbia
View of low waterfall from stream, flowing into Lowe Inlet in British Columbia, surrounded by wooded area with snow-covered mountains in background.
Frazer (sic) Reach, British Columbia
View of the Fraser Reach from the water, with forested and snow-covered mountains rising out of the sound in British Columbia.
Hanging Valley. Frazer (sic) Reach. British Columbia
View of Hanging Valley with waterfall in center, wooded mountains to either side, and snow-capped mountains in background in Bristish Columbia.
P10896-P10897, L00742-L00744
Metlakahtla. Annette Island, Alaska
View of village of New Metlakahtla, Annette Island, Alaska, with wooden walkway; bay and snow-capped mountains in background.
Church and School House. New Metlakahtla, Annette Island, Alaska
View of the Episcopal church and school house at New Metlakahtla. "Scottish missionary Father William Duncan's Christian Church of Church and School House of Metlakahtla".
Interior of church. New Metlakahtla. Annette Island. Alaska
Interior of wooden plank church at New Metlakahtla, showing pews, altar area with lectern, oil lamps. and pipe organ. A large representation of an open bible hangs over the altar area, as does an arched sign stating "Peace on earth good will toward men".
P10898-P10902, L00745-L00746, L00748-L00756
Wrangell Alaska
View of the village of Wrangell, Alaska, with commercial buildings and harbor in center, bay and snow-capped mountains beyond.
Fort Wrangell. Alaska
View of Fort Wrangell with white building in center, and rocky shore and bay in foreground; snow-capped mountains in background.
House of Tlingit Chief Shake. Wrangell. Alaska
Two Tlingit totem poles in front of Chief Shake's house, which is of a traditional shape, but renovated with sash windows, door, and chimney, with narrow front porch and a wooded frame around door. "Man and blackfish pole to right; bear and tracks pole to left" in Wrangell, Alaska.
Totem poles of Tlingit Indians at Wrangell
Tlingit totem poles or Kad-a-shan Totem Poles in front of a European-style house with bay windows; the totems are built up on a stone-edged platform the width of the house with wooden stairs leading up to it; another traditional house stands to the left in Wrangell, Alaska.
Tlingit totem pole. Wrangell. Alaska
View of totem pole next to wooden walkway leading up to European-style house, surrounded by trees in Wrangell, Alaska.
Totem poles of Tlingit Indians. Wrangell. Alaska
Man, possibly Edward S. Curtis, photographing totem poles (man and blackfish pole to right; bear and tracks pole to left) standing in front of Chief Shake's house as seen from the side; another man stands behind him; they both stand (along with a dog) on a raised wooden-edged deck in front of the house in Wrangell, Alaska.
In Behm Canal, near Wrangell. Alaska
View from the Behm Canal across the water at two small wooded islands near Wrangell, Alaska.
Coast range, near Wrangell Narrows. Alaska
View of the snow-capped Coast Mountains near Wrangell Narrows, Alaska, from above, across a body of water, with a wooded island in center.
Coast range near Wrangell narrows. Alaska
View of the snow-capped Coast Mountains near Wrangell Narrows, Alaska, from above, across a body of water, with a wooded shore in middle ground, reflected in the water; an unidentified wooden tripod with diamond-shaped top is on the shore.
Scrub pine and bog near Wrangell. Alaska
View of forest in background, with bog and large tree to the right in foreground near Wrangell, Alaska.
View of two small white wooden burial structures with windows and pyramid-shaped roofs; the structure on the right has a finial at its peak; the other has a Russian Orthodox cross. RESTRICTED.
Restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
P10903, P11115, L00785-L00786, L00788-L00791
Treadwell mine. Douglas Island
View from across a body of water of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company and outlying buildings in the distance, Douglas Island, Alaska.
Treadwell mine. Douglas Island
View, likely from the S.S. George W. Elder, of the Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company and outlying buildings in the distance; pier with ship in foreground, Douglas Island, Alaska.
Shore in Lynn Canal
View of the shear rocky shore in the Lynn Canal, possibly the edge of the Davidson Glacier in Alaska.
Davidson Glacier. Lynn Canal
View of the Davidson Glacier, from across the Lynn Canal, with snow-capped mountains to either side in Alaska.
Davidson Glacier. Lynn Canal
View of the Davidson Glacier, from across the Lynn Canal, with snow-capped mountains to either side in Alaska.
Davidson Glacier
View of the Davidson Glacier, from across the Lynn Canal, with snow-capped mountains to either side in Alaska.
P10904-P10908, P11140-P11143, L00831-L00836
White Pass Railway
View across a ravine of the tracks of the White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad, running across the face of a mountain, with a bridge to the right, in Alaska. This route was built in 1898.
Summit of White Pass Boundary of Canada and Alaska
Summit of White Pass, a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains on the border of Alaska and British Columbia. It leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes that are at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake, and was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush. This view shows the White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad, built in 1898.
Disputed boundary, between Alaska and Canada at White Pass
Custom house and British and American flags at the boundary of British Columbia and Alaska, at White Pass, a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. It leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes that are at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake, and was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Last sledge of season. White Pass
Sleds with provisions on the summit of White Pass; the last sled load of grain to be hauled over the pass before the snow melt. White Pass, on the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes that are at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake, and was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Skagway Canyon
View of the Skagway River and Canyon from the White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad, built in 1898 in Alaska. Inlet and snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Skagway Canyon
View of the Skagway River and Canyon from the White Pass and Yukon Route narrow gauge railroad, built in 1898 in Alaska. Inlet and snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Railroad between Skagway and White Pass
Panoramic view of White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway and White Pass in Alaska. White Pass is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. It leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes that are at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake, and was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Scene near Skagway
Scene near Skagway, perhaps from the White Pass and Yukon Railway. Snow capped mountain in the background and lake in rhw foreground.
Railroad between Skagway and White Pass
Scenic view of White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway and White Pass. White Pass is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. It leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes that are at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake, and was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Railroad between Skagway and White Pass
Scenic view of White Pass and Yukon Railway between Skagway and White Pass. White Pass is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. It leads from Skagway, Alaska to the chain of lakes that are at the headwaters of the Yukon River, Crater Lake, Lake Lindeman and Bennett Lake, and was one of the two main passes used by prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush.
P10909-P10918, P10920-P10930, P11136-P11139, L00792-L00793, L00796-L00804, L00806-L00830, L00840
Hugh Miller glacier. Hugh Miller inlet.
Hugh Miller Glacier seen from Hugh Miller Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska, with reflection of snow-capped mountains in water; ice floes in the water.
New made ground by action of Hugh Miller Glacier
Unidentified man standing amidst rock debris and material deposited by the Hugh Miller Glacier in Alaska. Snow-capped mountains in background.
Glacier Bay
View of Glacier Bay, Alaska, with snow-capped mountains beyond.
Glacier Bay
View of Glacier Bay, Alaska, with snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Glacier Bay
View of Glacier Bay, Alaska, with ice floes, and snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Glacier Bay
View of ice floes in Glacier Bay in Alaska.
Glacier Bay
View of unidentified members of the Harriman Alaska Expedition boating in Reid Inlet, filled with ice floes, with snow-capped mountains in the distance in Alaska.
West side of Glacier Bay
View of the west side of Glacier Bay, Alaska, with ice floes to the left, and snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Reid inlet. Glacier bay
Unidentified members of the Harriman Expedition on or near a boat on the shoreline of Reid Inlet, with multiple ice floes, and snow-capped mountains in the background in Alaska.
Reid glacier. Glacier bay
View of Reid Glacier, as it enters the ice floe-filled Glacier Bay, with snow-covered rocky outcrop in foreground and snow-capped mountains in the background in Alaska.
Charpentier peak. Glacier bay
View of the Charpentier Glacier from across Glacier Bay, Alaska, with snow-capped mountains in the background, reflected in the bay.
Tlingit Indian sealer's house Glacier Bay
View of a wooden plank dwelling in a Tlingit Indian sealer's camp in Glacier Bay, Alaska, with wood piled up next to the dwelling, and a cloth covering for the doorway. An unidentified man and woman are seated in front of the hut; she is making something in a large metal pot.
Tlingit Indian sealing hut. Glacier bay
View of a wooden plank dwelling in a Tlingit Indian sealer's camp, in Glacier Bay, Alaska, with wood piled up next to the dwelling, and a cloth covering for the doorway. An unidentified man is standing next to the doorway; dog to the left.
Tlingit Indian sealer's camp. Glacier Bay
View of a Tlingit Indian sealer's camp on the shore of Glacier Bay, Alaska, showing dwellings and canoes. Drying meat(?) in background.
Tlingit Indian sealers being towed. Glacier Bay
Tlingit Indian sealers being towed in a wooden canoe in Glacier Bay, Alaska, with snow-capped mountains in background; they wear white jackets and cap, and the canoe is covered with canvas.
Muir Inlet
View of Muir Inlet, Alaska, with ice floes in the water and on the black sand shore; snow-capped mountains in background.
Muir Inlet
View of Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska, with large ice floes in the bay, snow-capped mountains beyond, and the sun behind light clouds.
Muir Inlet
View of Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska, with large ice floe in the bay, snow-capped mountains beyond, and reflection in the water.
Across the inlet from Muir house
View of Steamship S.S. George W. Elder in Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay, Alaska, with a small launch with American flag coming toward the camera; near John Muir's cabin at the east end of Muir Glacier, built during a previous expedition of Mr. Muir in 1890.
From strand near Muir House
View of the ice-floe-covered beach and inlet near John Muir's cabin at the east end of Muir Glacier, Alaska, built during a previous expedition of Mr. Muir in 1890; rocky bluffs and the glacier(?) are in the background, with snow-capped mountains beyond.
Iceberg near Muir glacier
View of an iceberg in Muir Inlet, near the Muir Glacier, Alaska, with rocky bluffs and the glacier(?) in the background.
Iceberg in Muir Inlet
View of a large iceberg in the Muir Inlet, Alaska, with snow-capped mountains in the background.
Muir glacier
View of the Muir Glacier, Alaska, with rocky landscape in foreground, and snow-capped mountains in the background.
Muir glacier
View from above of the Muir Glacier looking west, with Muir Inlet to the right, another glacier and snow-capped mountains in the background in Alaska.
Muir glacier
View of the Muir Glacier, taken across Muir Inlet, from an opposite shore covered with ice in Alaska.
Muir glacier
Detail view of Muir Glacier in the foreground, with Muir Inlet and snow-capped mountains in the background in Alaska.
Muir glacier
Detail view of Muir Glacier in Alaska.
Muir Glacier from West
View of the Muir Glacier from the west, with Muir Inlet to the left, and snow-capped mountains in the background in Alaska..
Edge of Muir glacier
Unidentified member of the Harriman Expedition canoeing in Muir Inlet, at the base of Muir Glacier in Alaska. "Just after this was taken, a huge berg fell off, the wave almost swamping the canoe and washing overboard a series of very large negatives of the glacier front."
Crevasses. Muir Glacier
View of crevasses in the Muir Glacier, with snow-capped mountains in the background in Alaska.
Resurrected forest, near Muir glacier
View of the remains of partially submerged trunks of trees, part of an old forest near Muir Glacier, along the banks of a stream leading down to Muir Inlet, with rocky bluffs on either side in Alaska.
Rock Table, back of Muir glacier
View of a large rock supported by a column of ice, in a rocky landscape at the back of the Muir Glacier in Alaska.
John Muir mountain. In foreground a rock laden berg
View of a rock-encrusted iceberg in Glacier Bay, Alaska, with the snow-capped "John Muir Mountain" in the background. John Muir and another unidentified member of the Harriman Expedition are in center in a small boat "visiting" the iceberg.
Mountains East of Muir glacier, from Nunatak
View of snow-capped mountains east of Muir Glacier, as seen from a nunatak or nunataq, an exposed rocky element within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier in Alaska. Unidentified members of the Harriman expedition are seen in the foreground.
Fairweather range seen across Glacier bay, from Sunday Island
View across Glacier Bay from Sunday Island to the Fairweather Range, the unofficial name for a mountain range located in Alaska and British Columbia; it is the southernmost range of the Saint Elias Mountains in Alaska.
Section of Muir Glacier in Alaska.
Section of Muir Glacier in Alaska.
Section of Muir Glacier in Alaska.
Section of Muir Glacier in Alaska.
P10931-P10943, P11133, P11167, L00747, L00757-L00761, L00763-L00781
P10944-P10945, L00839, L00844-L00845, L00848
Though P10919 is listed in the souvenir albums as depicting "The Elder in Glacier Bay," it was more likely made at Hubbard Glacier in Disenchantment Bay, as determined by photographer Edward Curtis's log and similarly numbered Curtis photographs in this series.
P10919, P10946-P10948, P10951-P10975, L00795, L00805, L00849-L00858, L00861-L00882
P10881, P10981-P10995, P10998-P11024, P11134-P11135, L00787, L00883-L00909, L00911, L00913-L00931, L00932-L00960
P11025-P11027, L00961, L00963, L00988-L00989, L00992
P11028-P11041, P11144, P34101, L00964-L00982, L00985-L00987
P11042-P11046, P11145, P11168, L00993-L01000
P11047-P11056, P11169, L01001-L01009, L01011-L01018
P11057-P11059, L01019-L01025
P11060, P11062-P11076, P11146, L00705, L00762, L01062-L01082
P11061, P11077-P11089, L01038-L01061
P11090-P11099, L01026-L01037
P10949-P10950, P10996-P10997, P11100-P11114, P11131, L00702-L00703, L00707, L00719-L00720, L00762, L00782-L00784, L00837-L00838, L00841-L00843, L00846-L00847, L00859-L00860, L00910, L00912, L00983-L00984, L00990-L00991, L01010
P11116-P11130, P11132, P11166, L00721-L00741
P11162-P11165, P11180
This series comprises four photographs of Alaska glaciers made by mountaineer and traveler Dora Keen in 1914 and one photograph by Arthur Clarence Pillsbury depicting Skagway Canyon in 1898.
P11170-P11179
The bulk of this series comprises nine platinum prints made and signed by Edward Sheriff Curtis, which depict Apache, Hopi, Zuni, and Suquamish Indians and a Piegan camp. Most of these photographs were made as part of Curtis's