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Flathead dance
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Dancers, Photographs, Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952, Photogravures, Images, Dances, Salish Indians, Rites and ceremonies
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Description by Edward S. Curtis: "Eliminating the environment, one would suppose that a party of plains Indians were performing. The costumes, the step, the gesture, the character of songs, all evidence of the Flathead war-dance." source: Library of Congress, American Memory website
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The original photogravure was produced in Boston by John Andrew & Son, c1906 and published as plate 234 in The North American Indian volume 07, The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai [portfolio]. Original copyright Seattle : E.S. Curtis, 1911