A burial platform--Apsaroke – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: A burial platform--Apsaroke, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A burial platform--Apsaroke
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The notes on the back of this print identify the platform as the grave of Hairy Wolf's wife, a Crow burial raised off the ground rather than placed in it. Scaffold burials were common among several Plains peoples, including the Apsaroke, as the Crow called themselves, and elevating the dead was meant to keep remains away from animals. Edward S. Curtis made the photograph around 1908 for *The North American Indian*, where it appears in volume 4, and it stands as one of the records he made of mortuary practices in Montana during those years.
| Created / published | c1908 July 6. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H113092 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2764-08. On verso: The grave of Hairy Wolfs wife. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 4, p. 36. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Spiritual life--Montana--1900-1910. Crow Indians--Spiritual life--1900-1910. Scaffold burial--Montana--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,187 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-123938 |
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