EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 193 Travaux - Piegan, 1900. 11.8x15.6" photogravure on 13.9x16.9" tissue paper cornered to 17.2x21.2" Rives BFK paper with the original 18x21.9 Holland Van Gelder overmat. Print date 1911. From Portfolio 6, Piegan, Cheyenne & Arapaho, of The North American Indian. Printed on print recto: Plate 193 / Travaux - Piegan / From Copyright Photograph 1900 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure John Andrew & Son. Inscribed in pencil on Rives BFK paper recto: 193. Inscribed in pencil on Rives BFK paper verso: CCI 3058 (twice) / v.6.

Curtis wrote about this: "With most of the plains tribes the travois was the universal vehicle for transporting camp equipment, but is now rarely seen. In the days before the acquisition of horses a smaller form of the same device was drawn by dogs. The occasion of this picture was the bringing of the sacred tongues to the medicine-lodge ceremony."

Minor wear. Slight yellowing in margins.