American Indian Cultural Regions – Object #7

Cayuse Woman and Child

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<p>Photograph of a Cayuse woman with an elaborately beaded dress squatting on the ground with her child on a cradleboard.</p>

Photograph of a Cayuse Indian woman and her child, 1910

Questions:

What type of clothing do you see in this photograph? What might it be made out of? In what type of climate might it be worn?

Why do you think the small child is bundled on a cradleboard?

How are the woman and small child similar to and different from women and their children today?

Citations

Curtis, Edward S, photographer. Cayuse Mother and Child. , ca. 1910. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.