Indigenous Collection (page 57)

Empire Exhibition - South Africa
Empire Exhibition - Johannesburg, South Africa, 1936. A group of native ladies carrying large gourds filled with beer on their heads

Shilluk Tribesmen
Three Shilluk Tribesmen standing in front of the framework for a round house. Date: circa 1910s

Pahouin man from Gabon, Central Africa. circa 1910s

Baby Pima Indian in a Pappoose
Baby indigenous Native American Pima Indian in a Pappoose. The Pima (or Akimel O odham) are a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA)

American lady dressed as Red Indian Girl
A very (non-native!) American lady dressed as a Red Indian Girl with long brunette braided hair and full feather headdress, necklace and squaws kaftan. Date: 1913

A Bhutia Dancing Party - Tibet
A Bhutia Dancing Party. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

Chinook Grass Dance - Young Braves
Chinook Grass Dance, Montana - Young Braves. Grass Dance features traditional regalia with long, flowing fringes and designs remniscent of grass blowing in the wind. Date: circa 1906

A Bhutia Coolia. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

Queen Charlotte Island - Masset Totem Poles
The Masset Inlet - Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. The Totem Poles of the Haida People. Masset was known by the Haida as Uttewas (or White Slope Town)

Blackfoot Squaw and Baby in Papoose - Canada, North West Territory Date: circa 1910s

Maori Chief - New Zealand, with a spectacular tattoo on his face and wearing a smock made of tiny seashells. Date: 1904

Indigenous people of Panama living in simple dwellings in the jungle, raised on stilts to prevent against incursion by flood or beast... Date: circa 1910s

Tibetan Family in traditional costume Date: circa 1910s

Canada - Indian children in camp - Chilliwack, British Columbia. Date: 1904

Baby Pima Indians in Pappooses
Baby indigenous Native American Pima Indians in Pappooses. The Pima (or Akimel O odham) are a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA)

Victoria, British Columbia - Songhees Squaw
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - Songhees Indian Squaw. The Songhees or Songish, also known as the Lekwungen or Lekungen

Indigenous Coastal Indian Camp - British Columbia, Canada, close to Victoria. Date: 1904

Ochre Pit Cove - Newfoundland and Labrador. Indigenous peoples from all parts of Newfoundland came to gather ochre from this cove to make up red face paints. Date: circa 1910s

Benin - Scenes & Places
The Republic of Benin (formerly Dahomey) - places depicted on the card are capital city Porto-Novo, a house of the indigenous population (one of whom is pictured in the inset oval)

Aupoakte Win. kills Morning Squaw and Child (Papoose) Date: circa 1910

Two Crow Tribe girls with their ponies standing before their tipi (also tepee or teepee). Date: 1911

Sami People - Sweden Date: circa 1910s

Bolivian Woman carrying many baskets - she is Fruit seller Date: circa 1910s

Catholic Mission - Chesterfield, Newfoundland
The Eskimo (Inuit) Catholic Mission - Chesterfield, Newfoundland and Labrador in January. Date: circa 1920s

New Zealand - Mount Egmont - view from the Maori settlement at Parihaka Date: circa 1880

Inuit Chief and his wife - Alaska (Island of Detroit, Bering) Date: circa 1910s

Southern African Native Village
Native Village in Southern Africa. The children eat breakfast. Date: 1904

New Zealand chief with spear
A New Zealand Chief in traditional costume, holding a spear. 1837

Two Araucanos playing pelican, Chile, South America
Two Araucanos (natives of Chile) playing at pelican, or bandy-ball, a game similar to hockey, in the high mountain valley of Cuevas, Chile, South America. 1824

New Zealand war canoe

Title page and frontispiece, Colonization of New Zealand
Title page and frontispiece, The British Colonization of New Zealand. Depicting a Maori warrior in the foreground, with a native fort on a hill in the background. 1837

Indian totem pole carver at work. Date: 1911

George Robinson on his conciliation mission, Tasmania

Iron Tail - Chief of the Sioux Tribe in his full ceremonial traditional costume Date: 1901

Elderly Native American women weaving baskets Date: 1909

Adobe Mosque - Colonial Exhibition Paris
An indigenous Mosque - Example of French West African Adobe architecture in an exhibit at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris in 1931

Inuit children at a Catholic Mission - Newfoundland
Inuit children at a Catholic Eskimo Mission - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

New Zealand - Maori of the Ngatimahoe Tribe
New Zealand - Ngaroki Te Uru, a Maori of the Ngatimahoe Tribe Date: 1900

Inuit milking Reindeer, Newfoundland
Laps (blanket term at the time for the indigenous Inuit people) milking reindeer at the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen Station, near St

Betsileo Costume - Madagascar. A wonderful photograph of a woman wrapped in a fine piece of patterned cloth. The Betsileo are a highland ethnic group of Madagascar

Tangiers - Morocco - A Woman of the Mountains carrying her sleeping child in a sling across her shoulders and wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and very large scarf/shawl. Date: circa 1910s

Eritrea, Africa - Man from the Danakil Lowlands
Eritrea, Africa - An indigenous man from the Danakil Lowlands Date: circa 1920s

Catholic Inuit family - Newfoundland
An Inuit (Eskimo) family who converted to Catholicism - Newfoundland and Labrador Date: circa 1910s

Collection of Northwestern Indian Baskets Date: 1910

Indigenous Alaskan Inuit children
Pair of Indigenous Alaskan Inuit children Date: circa 1910

Indigenous American Baby in a papoose
Indigenous Americans Baby in a decorated papoose Date: circa 1910

Vancouver Island - Manhousett Tribe Fishermen
Vancouver Island, Canada - Manhousett Tribe Fishermen (probably Kwakwaka-wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth or Coast Salish tribesmen). The word Manhousett used to caption this card is probably a derivation of

Mary Bad Eyes and Papoose (baby). Date: 1912

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