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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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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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Towering Rock Formations

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Description: View of four natural rock towers. There is a person (probably a man) standing on top of the one on the far left.
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Large Rock Formation

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Description: View uphill towards a woman posing on a large, exposed rock formation.
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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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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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Lacrosse Team

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a Native American lacrosse team posing holding their sticks before a match. A man holding a drum is standing on the far left. Two...
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Ojibwe Dancers

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of a group of male and female Ojibwe (Chippewa) dancers forming a circle. They are surrounded by a crowd of white onlookers. The dancers are ...
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School Girls

Date: 1930
Description: A group of eight Native American school girls posing near playground equipment. A brick school building is in the background. The girls are dressed in ide...
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Planting Corn

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified Native American man posing while sitting on a corn planter pulled by a team of horses.
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Harvesting Potatoes

Date: 1925
Description: A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There...
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Preparing a Seed Bed

Date: 1925
Description: An Ojibwe man is standing and holding the reins of his team of two horses hitched to a harrow. Two boys are standing behind him. In the background are leaf...
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Charles Decorah

Date: 1925
Description: Charles Decorah, a Ho-Chunk Indian, broadcasting seeds oats over a tilled field. He is wearing bib overalls and a cap. There is a dog in the foreground on...
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Learning Better Farming

Date: 1925
Description: A Caucasian man in a suit is standing at the center of a large arbor. Native American men and women are sitting or standing around him, while a Native Amer...

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