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Painting

Pocahontas

Date: 1832
Description: Portrait of Pocahontas.
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
Postcard

Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Susie Redhorn "HiNukIGa" (Woman), daughter of Frank Redhorn and Lucy Prettyman, shown in later years posing by two baskets. The photograph was taken at the...
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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

Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
Photograph

Moqui [Hopi] Indian Group

Date: 08 1898
Description: A Moqui [Hopi] Indian group of adults and children.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
Photograph

Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Girl

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Description: Belle Mattie Mike "ENooKah" (First Daughter), daughter of John Mike, Jr. "HayShooKeeKah" (One Horn) and his wife, Kate Littleblackhawk "ENooNeeKah" (Woman)...
Painting

Iwa-toke

Date: 1845
Description: Menominee woman, Iwa-toke, "The Serpent," sister to Ke-wah-ten, "The North Wind."
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Mamie Bearchief Funmaker

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Mamie (Minnie) Bearchief Funmaker (HoHumpCheKaRaWinKah) posing standing near a chair in front of ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Young Ho-Chunk Woman in Regalia

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Henukaw Davis, Rogue. She is wearing several necklaces, earrings, rings, streamer, moccasins. A ribbon work skirt with a pla...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Man Posed Sitting

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man with long hair posed sitting in a fringed chair, holding a stick in clasped ha...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Portrait of a Native American/Sioux Man

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man with white hair. He is wearing a bear claw necklace. The photograph is inscribed, "Sioux Indian, Black Hills...
Photograph

Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Women and Two Children

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Description: Full-length studio group portrait. Annie Yellowbank-Beaver, Whitedog is sitting on the left wearing a printed blouse and shawl around her waist. Mary White...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Woman in Summer Lodge

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Description: A Ho-Chunk summer lodge with the sides raised. A Ho-Chunk woman is sitting inside. Another lodge and trees are in the background.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Women and Men in Front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street

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Description: View from street of two Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk man standing in the doorway of the Werner Drugstore on the north side of Main Street between First an...
Print

Greetings

Date: 1914
Description: Holiday card of a Native American woman holding a patterned bowl of holly and berries. A blanket is draped over her shoulders, and a red and green headband...
Print

Komis Club Ginger Ale

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Description: Komis Club Extra Dry Ginger Ale label. The label features a drawing of a Native American woman wearing a headdress with a single feather and holding a glas...
Document

Northwestern Lithographing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, with a sidebar image of an American Indian woman with brai...

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