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Watching the Dancers

Date: 1906
Description: The original caption reads: "A group of girls on the topmost roof of Walpi, looking down into the plaza." An informal group portrait of Hopi women.
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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.
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Ho-Chunk Children on Blanket Outdoors

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Description: Two small Ho-Chunk children are sitting on a blanket, with a young girl wearing a long dress and necklaces standing just behind them. Canvas tents and a do...
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Panamanian Men and American Woman

Date: 12 1942
Description: A Panamanian boy is standing between two indigenous Panamanian men. They are all wearing face paint and flowers in their hair. One of the men and the boy a...
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Three Boys Building Roof

Date: 08 12 1943
Description: Three indigenous boys building a roof out of what appears to be palm fronds at Combat Team Headquarters on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea ...
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Youth Weaving Roofing

Date: 08 12 1943
Description: An indigenous youth weaves roofing for military buildings on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea).
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Indigenous Men Carry Supplies

Date: 1943
Description: View down line of indigenous men, from a village near the airstrip, helping soldiers carry equipment to a camp area along a trail. Two soldiers stand off t...
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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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Woman using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: Woman using a loom outdoors. In her journal from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The t...
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Chippewa (Ojibwa) Woman and Child

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman and child posing in front of a wigwam, a waginogaan (domed-lodge). The woman is dressed in traditional Native...
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Chippewa Woman

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Description: Stereograph of a Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman sitting in the open doorway of a wigwam. She is wearing a dark skirt and patterned blouse. The foreground is cover...
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Ojibwa Woman with Infant and Child

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph of an Ojibwa woman sitting on an overturned canoe with a baby on her back wrapped in a blanket. A young child is sitting at her feet. They are ...
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Algerian Woman

Date: 1930
Description: A woman is posing sitting in the doorway of a brick building. She has facial tattoos and is wearing a head scarf over her braided hair.
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Woman

Date: 1925
Description: A woman is posing for a head and shoulders portrait in the doorway of a dwelling. She is wearing traditional dress with head scarf and a bead necklace. Her...
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Woman in Doorway

Date: 1930
Description: A woman in traditional dress is posing in a doorway for a three-quarters seated portrait. She has facial and forearm tattoos, a beaded necklace and two pen...
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Woman in Doorway

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified woman is posing for a head and shoulders portrait in the doorway of a stone or adobe building. She is wearing a head scarf, beaded necklace...

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