scaffold the dead
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July 24, 2008, 12:24 am
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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: American genocide, American West, burial platform, Captain Seth and Mary Eastman, Curtis photographs, Death and Disney, Disney, Disneyland, Edward Curtis, Edward S. Curtis, ethnic cleansing, Funeral scaffold, genocide, Indian funerals, Karl Bodmer, Native American funeral rites, Native American funerals, photography, plains indians, platform burial, Seth Eastman, Traditional Indian Burial
Edward S. Curtis, “An Indian Burial Platform,” photograph, 1908
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Karl Bodmer, “Funeral scaffold of a Sioux chief,” photograph, 1840-1843
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Capt. S. Eastman, U.S. army and C.K. Burt, “Indian Burial,”
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“Plains Indian Scaffold Burial”
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A rite and an image that is ultimately Disneyfied
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ES Curtis’s works are represented well in ‘The Indian Picture Opera’(Amazon,dvd). It’s a re-creation of his 1911 lecture and slide show.
His work reverberates on through history because he knew how to capture character and soul on camera.
Curtis has turned into a subject of controversy because of the tug of war between documentary and art. Many people try to hold him accountable for 50 years before, and 100 years after his images were taken.
The images speak for themselves.
Comment by jay river July 24, 2008 @ 7:31 pmCan a person still get a “scafold” type burial in any state in the United States ? I’m being serious but I probably sound a bit looney, I guess.
Comment by teraplanez June 14, 2009 @ 12:02 am