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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | This image was copied by artist Seth Eastman in 1849 and printed in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's The History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Hist... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian dance on snowshoes. (Plate 14). "In the northern latitudes of America, where the winters are long and very severe, from the heavy falls of snow wh... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian dance, with some wearing bear masks (Plate 18). "Next in importance to the buffalo hunts, and not less exciting and spirited in its character, is ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indians with ball-playing equipment, believed to be used in the game of Lacrosse. (Plate 21) "In devoting a few of the last pages of this work to some o... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22). "As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23). "Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24). "The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | "The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Group of men engaged in a war dance. They hold spears, axes, and bows. (Plate 29) |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Meda Songs pictographs. Four rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Webeno Songs pictographs. Four rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictorial record of a Chief's Success in Hunting and War displayed in pictographs. Two rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 1-70, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a... |
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