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Chief Ma-ko-day and Family
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St. Croix Ojibwa Chief Ma-Ko-day (Chief Peter Bearheart) and his wife, grandson, and another unidentified person in front of their birch wigwam located in the Rice Lake Encampment. A dog can be seen on the right and buckets and tubs on the left. Shoes, clothes and various implements are hanging on a pole. There are trees in the background.
July 1916
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