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Photograph

Thunderbird Petroglyphs

Date: 
Description: Thunderbird petroglyphs carved on rock face at Twin Bluffs.
Manuscript

Will Buy Famous Baraboo Mound

Date: 12 28 1906
Description: Newspaper article about the purchase of land for a park related to Man Mound in Sauk County accompanied by a line drawing of the mound. Article clipped fro...
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Print

Ne-rucha-ja Feast Program

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a program for a feast and pow-wow in support of the Lake Monona Wild Life Sanctuary group's attempt to preserve Frost's Woods (Ne-rucha-ja)....
Drawing

Sketch of a Shell Gorget

Date: 
Description: A pencil sketch of a shell gorget made on stationary paper with the Clarence T. Olen Farms letterhead.
Drawing

Sketches of Artifacts

Date: 04 15 1911
Description: A sketch of artifacts, including pottery and a copper implement. There are notes written next to the drawings.
Photograph

Pottery Fragments

Date: 
Description: Three pottery fragments.
Photograph

Pictograph Rock

Date: 1888
Description: View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Caption on photograph reads: "Pictograph Rock. Rock bearing aboriginal...
Photograph

Pictograph Rock

Date: 1888
Description: View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Pictograph Rock bearing aboriginal carvings, located on the south side...
Photograph

Twin Bluffs Petroglyphs

Date: 
Description: Figures carved in stone at Twin Bluffs petroglyph site.
Drawing

Passenger Pigeon

Date: 04 05 1939
Description: Watercolor painting of a Passenger Pigeon.
Drawing

Myrick Park Mounds

Date: 
Description: A sketch of effigy mounds at Myrick Park. There is some scribbled-out writing at the top of the page.

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