The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 17, 2026

A horizontally oriented sepia photogravure features a row of approximately twenty bare-chested Arikara men sitting in a grassy field, their backs facing us. Some wear waist wraps with geometric patterns. Toward the right, a tall evergreen tree stands against a pale sky. In the center background, faint poles and smoke rise from behind a low horizon into the hazy atmosphere.

Portfolio V, Plate 164: Arikara Medicine Fraternity-The Prayer

1908

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
published by

The University Press

America
photogravure
Presented by Mrs. James H. Hoyt, Elton Hoyt, II, and Mrs. Amasa Stone Mather in memory of James H. Hoyt 1995.203.25.17
Location: Not on view
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