Edward S. Curtis - Eclipse dance (c.1910)

Une image et des mots. Une photo d'indiens Kwakiutl exécutant la danse de l'éclipse (c.1910), prise par l'ethnologue américain Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952). Les mots sont de Walt Whitman, extraits de Leaves of grass.

You air that serves me with breath to speak!
You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!
You light that wraps me and all things in delicate equable showers!
You paths worn in the irregular hollows by the roadsides!
I believe you are latent with unseen existences, you are so dear to me.