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Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the...
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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...
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Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
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John Nuwi

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Description: Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun...
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Moccasin

Date: 1885
Description: Early carte-de-visite of a Ho-Chunk man identified as Moccasin. The backdrop indicates the photograph came from Charles Van Schaick’s studio, but it may ha...
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Chief Little Black Hawk

Date: 1895
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of George Blackhawk (WonkShiekChoNeeKah), sitting, and an unidentified man who is standing and w...
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Oneida G.A.R.

Date: 1907
Description: Oneida members of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Parish Hall is in the background.
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Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1918
Description: Burial grounds in La Pointe. A man is standing in the center with his back turned to the camera.
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Logging on a Reservation

Date: 1909
Description: A group of Native American Indian loggers pose on piles of logs at the Courtes Oreilles Reservation.
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Native American Women on Water Street

Date: 1911
Description: A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi...
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Indian Agency House

Date: 07 07 1929
Description: Miss Mary Prescott and Mrs. William McMahon, grandaughter and great grandaughter, respectively, of Pierre Paquette, appeared at a meeting called by the Wis...
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Woman and Child — Nunivak

Date: 1928
Description: Portrait of a Nunivak woman and child.
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Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp...
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Michael De Perry

Date: 1854
Description: Tintype of Michael De Perry and unidentified child.
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Vilas Park Indian Mounds Memorial

Date: 10 07 1914
Description: Sara (Mrs. Joseph) Mallon (Menominee) of Milwaukee, wearing a sash stands between two American flags behind a memorial that reads, "Indian Mounds: One of s...
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Drummers at Pow Wow

Date: 08 07 1967
Description: Harry Funmaker (left) of Wisconsin Dells, and Ray Tahawah of Lawton, Oklahoma, drumming. A crowd of young people is in the background.
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Males

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk males posing sitting and leaning against a prop stone wall. Probably John Blackh...
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Studio Portrait of Elderly Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly Ho-Chunk man with a beard posing standing next to a prop wooden fence. He is weari...
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Three Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1931
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk women. One of the women is posing standing in the center behind the other two woman posing sit...

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