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Winnebago Indian School

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Description: Children play in a classroom at the Winnebago school in Neillsville.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1934
Description: View across field towards the Indian Agency House, built in 1832.
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1932
Description: The Indian Agency House, near the site of Fort Winnebago.
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Man and Child in Open Wigwam

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Description: A Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) man and child inside a wigwam with the sides rolled up. A cat is walking in the grass in front of the man.
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1905
Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Sam Carley Blowsnake (HoChunkHaTeKah), wearing a hat and sporting long hair, is sitting next to ...
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Organized Winnebago Indian Show Company

Date: 1885
Description: In this photograph, copied by Van Schaick from another photographer, Wild West show promoter Tom Roddy is standing on the far right, along with his cast of...
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Group Portrait of Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1906
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family, Jim White Bear, his wife Kate, and their children (four girls and a boy). Kate White Bear and the older girls are wea...
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Portrait of Carrie Elk and Annie Lowe Lincoln

Date: 1904
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting, wearing beaded necklaces and long earrings, and wrapped in shawls. Carrie Elk (ENooKah...
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Studio Portrait of Susie Decorra Thundercloud, Albert Henry and Dora Monegar Wallace Green

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk group, Susie Decorra Thundercloud (UkSeKaHoNoKah), left, Albert (Robert) Henry (HeKeMeGa), center, and Dora Moneg...
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Studio Portrait of Jim White Bear and Family

Date: 1906
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family, including a man, woman, four girls, and a boy posing in front of a painted backdrop. The woman and older ...
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Studio Portrait of Jesse Thompson and John White

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men posing sitting and wearing suit jackets and ties in front of a painted backdrop. John White, on the left, is wear...
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Portrait of Four Ho-Chunk Women in Regalia

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting between two Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing regali...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of group posing in front of a painted backdrop with a prop fence. Two Ho-Chunk women are sitting and wearing several necklaces,...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Group

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of group in front of a painted porch backdrop, typical of many Van Schaick's photographs. The three Ho-Chunk women are wearing several neck...
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Group Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Men and Women

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four Ho-Chunk men and four Ho-Chunk women posing sitting and standing. From left to right in the back are...
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Portrait of Seven Young Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young Ho-Chunk men posing sitting in front of three young Ho-Chunk men posing standing. All of the m...
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Medicine Dance Lodge

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Description: A Medicine Dance Lodge at Morrison Creek. There is a long tent in a field with a large group of people and children sitting and standing underneath it. The...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk men posed sitting on the ground against a large stump in front of a painted backdrop. Both men are smoking a pipe, wearing ...
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Family Camping

Date: 1925
Description: A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire.
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Swan Dance

Date: 1929
Description: Ho-Chunk women perform the Swan Dance. There is a group of men sitting in a circle next to them.

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