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Eagle Dance

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Description: Ho-Chunk Eagle Dance. Two Ho-Chunk men dance in front of two drummers. A group of Ho-Chunk sit on a bench on the right. Tepee in the background.
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
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Eagle Dance

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Description: Ho-Chunk Eagle Dance. Two dancers crouch in front of two men with drums. Ho-Chunk men and women sit on a bench at right. Tepee in back.
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four men kneel in a square next to poles bearing feather headdresses. A flute player and a man with a rattle st...
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Ho-Chunk Woman with Baskets

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Description: Studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk woman with baskets.
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Ho-Chunk Man with Eagle Feather

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Description: Studio portrait of Ho-Chunk man in profile with eagle feather.
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Ho-Chunk Man with Eagle Feather

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Tom Walker wearing an eagle feather headdress and indigenous clothing.
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Portrait of Native American Family

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of the Tom Walker family. They are dressed in indigenous clothing.
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Ho-Chunk woman standing, Josephine Pettibone, Decorah, Davis.
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman standing. She is the sister of Pete Pettibone.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Mary (Stacy) Yellowthunder, (Cowboy Woman) weaving a basket while seated on a blanket. A dwelling and trees can be seen in the background. She is the daugh...
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Native Americans at the World's Fair

Date: 1932
Description: Group of Native Americans en route to the 1933 World's Fair. The group are members of the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. The man holding the feather flag o...
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Armistice Day

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: View of cars and people on the 200-300 blocks of Broadway looking east.
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Deer Park

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Description: B. Olson and P. Helland sitting in the snow at a deer park in hunting gear, looking at a deer behind them.
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Evangeline Bennett

Date: 1916
Description: Evaline Bennett, wife of Henry Hamilton Bennett, in a white dress outside the studio hanging framed images.
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Tuesday Club Party

Date: 10 1939
Description: A group of women dressed festively and comically for a party. From left to right in the back row are Evaline Bennett, Blanche Foster, Edith Whitney, Rena P...
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Pedestrians Walking Near Railroad Bridge

Date: 06 1954
Description: Two women walking on the sidewalk along Broadway. Photograph taken from under the railroad bridge at Kilbourn (now Wisconsin Dells). The Wisconsin River is...
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Best Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial Group Dances

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Description: Dancers at Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial, in the Amphitheater.
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"Apollo" — High Rock from Romance Cliff

Date: 1931
Description: Second to last steamboat on the river taken before 1931, burned in 1931. Taken from Romance Cliff, "The Apollo" is shown coming through with smoke billowin...
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Jaws Rock Formation In Winter

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Description: Elevated view of the Jaws rock formation in the Wisconsin Dells.

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