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Indian Infant on Cradleboard

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Description: Illustration of an Indian baby on a cradleboard propped up between two Indian women.
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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Chippewa Mother

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Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) mother with two children, one of whom is in a cradleboard, at the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about N...
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Sioux Papoose

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Description: Portrait of a Sioux papoose.
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Indian Child

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Description: An Indian child on a blanket at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Cayuse Infants

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Description: Crying Cayuse infants wrapped in Pendleton blankets.
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Osage Women and Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Osage women holding children on their backs in infant carriers, with a young girl sitting between the...
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction which is near Minocqua. The group is standing in front of a wigwam, and a woman in the r...
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Indian Protest

Date: 08 02 1971
Description: Site of a demonstration by Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa against the Northern States Power Company dam on the Chippewa Flowage, Sawyer County. There is an A...
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Dedication of Winnebago Indian Village

Date: 07 1956
Description: Women make fry bread at the dedication of the Winnebago Indian Village.
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: A Ho-Chunk group dressed in regalia standing behind an elderly woman, sitting, and child who is standing. The man with the rifle has an appliqué blanket wr...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Girl Making Fry Bread

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Description: Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ...
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Navajo Woman Weaving a Blanket

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Description: A seated Navajo woman weaves a blanket near two young children. Cooking pots and utensils are in the right foreground.
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Boys after Pie-Eating Contest

Date: 1936
Description: Four boys smiling with pie filling on their faces standing around a table with four empty pie tins. Behind them is a large crowd of children.
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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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Drying Jerky

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian man and boy posing next to a birch frame used for drying jerky.
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Depictions of Algonquian Individuals

Date: 1616
Description: Illustration of four Algonquian Indians. E depicts a man dressed for combat in wood armor. F shows a woman in her regular dress carrying a child and an ear...

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