Color Photo of Osage Sioux Children

Color Photo of Osage Sioux Children

Little is known of this photo except that it was taken in 1919 and was titled,"Little Osages."

Rare Historic Colorized Photographs of the Crow Indians

Rare Historic Colorized Photographs of the Crow Indians

Crow Indian women photogrpahed on horseback outside of their camp in Montana

Crow Indian women photographed outside of their camp in Montana

Crow Indian photographed around the turn of the century in Montana

Colorized photo of a Crow Indian woman

Crow Indian dancers taken around the turn of the century in Montana

Rare Colorized Photos of Crow Indians

Rare Colorized Photos of Crow Indians

Prince Albert of Monaco is Photographed with Plenty Coups in 1913 

Crow Indian chief taken  in 1927

Photo shows the beautiful designs and bead work on Crow Indian clothing

Rare Colorized Photos of Blackfeet Indians

Rare Colorized Photos of Blackfeet Indians

Chief Duck, wife and grandchild in the Canadian west.

Blackfeet Indians Chief Duck

Blackfeet Indian dress, Alberta, Canada

Blackfeet Indian dancers

Arapaho Indian's Color Photographic Gallery

Arapaho Indian's  Rare Color Photographic Gallery

Arapaho Indians-photos-head dress

Arapaho Indians-woman-1884

Arapaho Indians-color photo-headdress

Arapaho Indians-color photo-Yellow Calf-1935

Arapaho Indians-dancers-costumes-1949

About Cherokee Color Symbolism

ABOUT CHEROKEE INDIAN COLOR SYMBOLISM.

Color symbolism plays an important part in the shamanistic system of the Cherokees, no less than in that of other tribes. Each one of the cardinal points has its corresponding color and each color its symbolic meaning, so that each spirit invoked corresponds in color and local habitation with the characteristics imputed to him, and is connected with other spirits of the same name, but of other colors, living in other parts of the upper world and differing widely in their characteristics. Thus the Red Man, living in the east, is the spirit of power, triumph, and success, but the Black Man, in the West, is the spirit of death. The shaman therefore invokes the Red Man to the assistance of his client and consigns his enemy to the fatal influences of the Black Man.

The symbolic color system of the Cherokees, which will be explained more fully in connection with the formulas, is as follows:

East	= red	= success; triumph.
North	= blue	= defeat; trouble.
West	= black	= death.
South	= white	= peace; happiness.
Above?	= brown	= unascertained, but propitious.
———	= yellow	= about the same as blue.

There is a great diversity in the color systems of the various tribes, both as to the location and significance of the colors, but for obvious reasons black was generally taken as the symbol of death; while white and red signified, respectively, peace and war. It is somewhat ]remarkable that red was the emblem of power and triumph among the ancient Oriental nations no less than among the modern Cherokees.