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Indian Agricultural Implements

Date: 1930
Description: Ears of corn with their husks braided together for drying are arranged over farming tools, including a sharpened stick, rake, hoe and a cultivator made fro...
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Dressing a Deer

Date: 1930
Description: An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi...
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Trapper with Hides

Date: 1920
Description: A Native American trapper sits on his haunches in front of a building where various hides on stretchers have been hung to dry. The building is sided with s...
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Two Men

Date: 1900
Description: Two unidentified Native American men, probably Ho-Chunk, posing for a seated, full-length studio portrait. Each is seated on a blanket and is shirtless. Th...
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Spirit Rock

Date: 1930
Description: View of a sign identifying the Spirit Rock, which is a large boulder surrounded by sturdy protective posts. There are tree stumps in the foreground and a w...
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Women with Baskets

Date: 1930
Description: Two unidentified Ho-Chunk women posing outdoors behind a pile of baskets made from split black ash. There is a tarpaper covered dwelling behind them with a...
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Pottery Vessels

Date: 1930
Description: Two pottery vessels are displayed on a cloth covered stand. The pots are in the Woodland Indian style, with vertical striation decoration.
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Garden Beds

Date: 1910
Description: An unidentified man standing in a wooded area. A light snowfall has highlighted linear ridges in the soil which indicate the location of Stockbridge Indian...
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Garden Beds at Leeman

Date: 1930
Description: A map of the site of a Native American village with a complex of linear raised garden beds and cache pits near Leeman. Also shown are a farmstead, road, an...
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Corn Hills

Date: 1930
Description: A composite lantern slide with two early views, ca. 1910, of raised corn hills on the campus of Carroll College (now Carroll University). At top is a view...
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Drying Corn

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified Native American man is standing with his hand on a makeshift work table holding shelled corn spread over a piece of cloth. The table is mad...
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Potawatomi Couple

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man and woman, identified only as Potawatomie [sic] Indians, posing in front of a log structure. The woman is wearing large earrings and ...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1930
Description: A group of Native Americans, working in a long row, harvesting cranberries. They appear to be women and children. Dwellings are in the background on the le...
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Maple Grove

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified man wearing a hat and double breasted overcoat is holding a binocular case in his left hand and posing beside maple trees that have multipl...
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Sugar Camp

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man, left, posing in front of the sapling frame of a shelter at a maple sugar camp. Two Native American women are standing under the fram...
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Indian Ponies

Date: 1930
Description: View across pasture towards two horses, one grazing and one running. In the foreground is the corner of a fence. There is a small building, possibly a dwel...
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Chippewa Camp

Date: 1930
Description: A lantern slide reproduction of a printed image of a Chippewa camp. Two dogs, center, are facing the camera. Two birch bark covered tipis are on the left; ...
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Medicine Wigwam

Date: 1930
Description: A Ho-Chunk woman with two children, a toddler who is standing, and an infant on a cradleboard, beside a long lodge (ciiserec). The lodge is covered with ca...
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Indian Village

Date: 1930
Description: This Native American village on Lac Vieux Desert includes a log cabin, left, a wigwam, center left, and other structures made of slab wood. Two braided rug...
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Children Posed with Birch Bark Wigwam

Date: 1930
Description: Three Native American children, two boys and a girl, posing with their dog in front of a wigwam. The children, two boys and a girl, are wearing European-st...

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