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Photograph of 'Scalp Dancer,' side view dancer facing right. Handwritten on the back, "The Scalp Dancer, $200...250...". Photograph attached to canvas-like album page with two holes punched on the left.

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Same subject and view as TU2009.39.265.7.1 Photograph of 'Scalp Dancer,' side view dancer facing right. Handwritten on the back, "The Scalp Dancer, $200...250...". Photograph attached to canvas-like album page with two holes punched on the left.

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Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian known as the scalp dancer. Remarks about the photograph include, "This Crow, one of a party just returned from a raid against the enemy, is celebrating their victory with feasting, dancing and counting their coup."

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Painting titled 'The Scout.' Painting is of an Indian on a white horse. On back written in ink is, "p. 216 Rocky Mountain Magazine, Dec. 1900 called The Scout in (?) Magazine for Dec 1904 p. 268." Photographer stamp on back reads, Harry D. Williams Photographer U.C.L.A. Photo Dept.

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Painting titled 'The Scouts.' Painting is of three Indians on horses looking across the landscape. On back of photograph, written in ink is, "The Scouts; Rocky Mountain Magazine Dec. 1900 p. 217; Same painting called A War Party in early days in Old Oregon." Photographer stamp on back reads, Harry D. Williams Photographer U.C.L.A. Photo Dept.

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Photograph of bronze entitled 'The Snake Priest,' side view facing left. Handwritten on the back in pencil, "The Snake Priest, $150...". Photograph attached to canvas-like album page with two holes punched on the left.

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Same subject and view as TU2009.39.265.17.1.

Description Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian, Hopi Medicine Man, and a rattle snake. Remarks for the photograph include, "the rattle snake is very sacred among the Hopi Indians as he has the power to bring rain and many are used to carry out their religious snake dance. Snake priests go out into the desert to catch as many as they need and in order to catch them they tickle them with a bunch of eagle feathers called 'a snake whip' until they uncoil and start to wriggle away. The...

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Photograph of bronze titled, "The Spirit of the Buffalo." Bronze depicts scene of man holding pipe and a buffalo skulls.

Description Leather album page of bronze of a man with wolves. The figure is supposed to be Blackfoot Spirit with wolves. Remarks include, "this is an Indian fable of how winter came about. Winter is called by the Blackfoot Indians 'Cold Maker' and this bronze represents him. In the long ago, an Indian died who had been treated badly by his people. He was buried on a scaffold up in the branches of a Cottonwood. One night the wolves came along and pulled his body down from the tree, but found him too...