The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Plate 635: Agichide-Assiniboin

1926

Edward S. Curtis

(American, 1868–1952)
America
glass interpositive plate
Overall: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Gift of Dr. Terence and Joyce Isakov 2022.298
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Edward S. Curtis wrote that an Agichide was part of a group of special medicine men who maintained order in the tribe and from whom chiefs were chosen.

Description

Contemporary scholars tracing the path to tribal leadership explain that when a male had been successful at war, he was deemed an Agichida, or warrior, and could be inducted into a warrior societies. The leaders of those societies, when they reached middle age, might be chosen as a Little Chief. The Little Chiefs, led by a single Chief, comprised the tribe’s leadership council.
  • ?-2022
    Dr. Terence D. Isakov and Joyce Isakov, Moreland Hills, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 5, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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