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Costa Rican Home

Date: 1902
Description: A women and her two children standing in front of the doorway to a traditional home of the indigenous people of Costa Rica. Several logs act as a sidewalk ...
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Small Home in Costa Rica

Date: 1902
Description: Family posing outside of their home in Costa Rica. The house stands under several coconut palms.
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Costa Rican Homes

Date: 1902
Description: Several families posing outside their homes in a small village in Costa Rica. On the left are what appears to be a railroad track or wooden walkway. The ho...
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Costa Rican Family

Date: 1902
Description: A Costa Rican family standing outside their home or farm building along a fence. A pig stands in the foreground with a board tied around its neck sniffing ...
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Women Using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by C...
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Man and Woman Gathering Water

Date: 1910
Description: A man and woman gathering water in calabashes, pitchers and clay pots. The women is carrying the water on a basket on her head, while the man carries them ...
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Woman and Man Grinding Grains

Date: 1910
Description: A woman and man grinding a variety of grain in a large stone mortar. The woman is wearing a blouse and skirt, the man is wearing white pants and is barefoo...
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Girls Gathering Grains

Date: 1910
Description: Three girls standing in tall grass gathering a type of grain, with a thatched house and a hill in the background. The girls wear white blouses and skirts.
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Women in Kimonos Working

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two women working. The woman on the left is kneeling on the ground and chopping tea on a wooden board. The woman standing in ...
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Two Women Bowing in Kimonos

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two women bowing to each other on opposite sides of an entrance gate to a yard. In her diary from Japan and South Korea, Carr...
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Women and Children Sitting Outside

Date: 1910
Description: Four people sitting on the ground outside of a shelter with a thatched roof. The woman on the left is styling a girl's hair. The woman on the right is hold...
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Men Returning after Hunt

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from Sudan, Carrie describes a tiger hunt which occurred while she was visiting a village. The tiger had been preying on livestock for a cou...
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Women Carrying Grain

Date: 1910
Description: Five women, four of them carrying large sacks of grain on their head, stand behind a group of women sitting on the ground. All of them are wearing head wra...
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Village Building

Date: 1910
Description: Group of people outside of a village dwelling. The building has the "horn-like" roof which Carrie describes in her journal from China and the Philippines. ...
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Group of Women

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of women wearing a variety of head dresses posed in front of the side of a building. They are wearing either black and gold dresses or skirt...
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People and Dog Sitting Outside

Date: 1910
Description: Three children, an adult, and a dog sitting outside of a thatched home. The children appear to be preparing food. All of the children are unclothed. In her...
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Group of People with Pottery

Date: 1910
Description: Group of people sitting on the ground outside of a thatched house with pottery.
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Weaving a Basket

Date: 1920
Description: Anna Goodvillage, at her home at Hemlock Creek, weaving a basket while sitting beneath a wigwam type shelter attached to the side of a wood and bark frame ...
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Albert Thunder and Family

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Description: Group portrait of Albert Thunder, his wife and two children standing outside a canvas covered wigwam.
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White Pigeon and Reuben Young

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length portrait of White Pigeon and Reuben Young in full regalia at Skunk Hill.

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