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Brule River Battle

Date: 1845
Description: Illustration of Chippewa and Sioux Indians battling each other at the Brule River. Wood engraving from Armstrong, "Early Life Among The Indians."
Painting

Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes

Date: 1821
Description: Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes.
Painting

Indian Spearing Beaver

Date: 1821
Description: Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver.
Photograph

Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
Photograph

Narrows, from the Dell House Beach

Date: 
Description: Two men dressed as "Indians" are sitting in a canoe at the edge of the beach. One is posing holding a bow and arrow, the other is holding a paddle.
Print

Buffalo Hunt, On Snow Shoes

Date: 1844
Description: Indians on snowshoes hunting buffaloes immobilized by snow (Plate 15).

"In this plate is illustrated the mode alluded to in the preceding page, of the In...

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Antelope Shooting

Date: 1844
Description: Indian with rifle in prone position hunting antelope (Plate 20).

"The antelope of the prairies and Rocky Mountains of America, which I believe to be diff...

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Ball-Play Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22).

"As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th...

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Archery of the Mandans

Date: 1844
Description: Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24).

"The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,...

Photograph

Solomon Islands Men Standing on U.S. Marine Corps Truck

Date: 1943
Description: Men, natives of the Solomon Islands, standing on a U.S. Marine Corps truck made by International Harvester. Some of the men are holding rifles.
Photograph

Group posed in Yard of House

Date: 1872
Description: Two women and three men are posing in a yard. One man is holding a shotgun, another a carpenter's saw. The frame house behind them has a small front porch ...
Print

Kaa-nun-der-waaguinse-zoo, Or The Berry Picker

Date: 1835
Description: Kaa-nun-der-waaguinse-zoo, or the Berry Picker, a famous Chippewa (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Tre...
Photograph

Members of the Chicago Traveling Club

Date: 1875
Description: Members of the Chicago Traveling Club are encamped on the shores of Lake Mendota and are posed with their tents, guns, cooking equipment, boat, paddles, sh...
Photograph

Men Outside of Post Office

Date: 1873
Description: Men with guns and dogs and wagons in front of a rural post office. Some men have assumed exaggerated poses, probably for humorous effect.
Drawing

Indian Taking Aim

Date: 1840
Description: Photograph of a drawing of an Indian aiming his bow and arrow, with one foot standing on an earlier kill.
Photograph

Fred Bear and Deer

Date: 1941
Description: Bow-hunter Fred Bear poses with his bow and a deer carcass.
Drawing

Magazine at Farmington

Date: 
Description: A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ...
Print

Defeat of General Braddock

Date: 01 07 1855
Description: Sketch of the defeat of General Braddock during an ambush in the French and Indian War. Caption reads: "Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and India...
Photograph

Capturing the Hodag

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Description: A staged scene depicting men poised with weapons pointed at a hodag, a mythical beast, who has attacked a child.
Photograph

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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