turtle terrain

indigenous americas through visual archive

[worldsandemanations]

San Cristobal, New Mexico. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979)

[smsomah]

Prayer. Mexico, 1946. Lola Álvarez Bravo

[smsomah]

Gloria T. Pomo, Native American artist and poet, California, 1964. Hansel Mieth

[smsomah]

Cuna girl holding a toucan. San Blas Islands, Panama, 1983

[nobrashfestivity]

Edgar Hewett, front, side and rear view of monument in Quirigua, Guatemala 1909

[pam3pr]

photo of Mixe woman's braids in Chichicastepec, Oaxaca Mexico. From a book titled Mexican Folk Art, 1971.

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[smsomah]

Guatemala, Santiago Atitlan, 1953. Helene Hoppenot

[the1920sinpictures]

1916 Mountain Chief of Piegan Blackfeet making a phonographic record at The Smithsonian Institute. The interviewer is ethnologist Frances Densmore. From Images of Yore, FB.

[thirtymilesout]

Lakota teenagers in western clothing, Pine Ridge Reservation (1891)

[fragrantblossoms]

Edward Weston. Untitled [three figures - two from Chupicuaro], 1926.

[deathandmysticism]

Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan, Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian Institution, 1912

[vintagewildlife]

American bison By: S. Wilson From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Wild Herds 1977

[kvetchlandia]

Leonard McCombe     Man Having His Hair Brushed by His Wife, Navajo Nation, Arizona     1948

[matt-barber58]

Holy Ghost panel, Great Gallery, at Horseshoe Canyon, Utah. 2015

[smsomah]

Arizona; Hopi, 1901. George Wharton James

[theinternetarchive]

'navajo shepardess,' wm. m. pennington for desert magazine, november 1937.

[frostedmagnolias]

Monsheeda (Dust Maker), and his wife Mehunga (Standing Buffalo), of the Indigenous Ponca tribe, posed together in their wedding photo

c. 1900