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Piegan Encampment, Montana, 1900s

Photographer Edward Curtis on Piegan tribe lodging: "To have compared the exact and demanding courtesies of everyday life in a Piegan tipi with that of the most exalted brown-stone fronted home would have put the dwellers in them to shame. ... It was difficult if not impossible for the white guest to conform to rules of usage and etiquette."

—Text from the National Geographic book Edward S. Curtis: Coming to Light, 2001

Photograph by Edward S. Curtis