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Menominee Indian Basket Maker and Child

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Description: Indian basket maker with her child.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Susie Redhorn "HiNukIGa" (Woman), daughter of Frank Redhorn and Lucy Prettyman, shown in later years posing by two baskets. The photograph was taken at the...
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Chippewa Woman Making Baskets

Date: 1925
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir...
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Mary (Stacy) Yellowthunder, (Cowboy Woman) weaving a basket while seated on a blanket. A dwelling and trees can be seen in the background. She is the daugh...
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Indian Basket Sellers

Date: 1909
Description: Three Potawatomi women selling baskets posing by a tree. There is a building in the background. Caption reads: "Indian Basekt Sellers."
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Karok Baskets

Date: 1923
Description: The original caption reads: "The basketry of the Karok does not differ from that of the Hupa and the Yurok. The process is always twining, and the usual ma...
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Woman Basket Weaving

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Description: A Native American woman weaving baskets outdoors. Three children are sitting nearby. Caption reads: "Indian Adepts, Glenn, Mich."
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Mary (Stacy) Yellowthunder, (Cowboy Woman) weaving a basket while seated on a blanket. A dwelling and trees can be seen in the background. She is the daugh...
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Indian Basket Makers

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Description: A group of Indian basket makers sits before their tents.
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Native Americans Roadside Market

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Description: View of a market near a road. Native Americans sell baskets and curios to men and women wearing hats and long coats.
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Women with Baskets

Date: 1930
Description: Two unidentified Ho-Chunk women posing outdoors behind a pile of baskets made from split black ash. There is a tarpaper covered dwelling behind them with a...
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Young Indian Girl

Date: 1910
Description: A young Indian girl standing on a run-down porch. She is wearing a dress and is holding a small basket in one hand, and a rolled item under her other arm. ...
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Indian Woman with Blueberries

Date: 1910
Description: An Indian woman standing on rocks holding two containers of blueberries.
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Mable Lowe Weaving Baskets

Date: 1969
Description: A Ho-Chunk woman, Mable Davis (maiden name) Lowe is sitting and weaving a basket. Behind her is a dwelling (chipoteke). Several finished woven baskets are ...
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Native American Basket Weaving

Date: 1967
Description: Mable and Martin Lowe sitting outdoors, with a dwelling (chipoteke) behind them. Mable is weaving a basket, while Martin is working on strips of wood for h...
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Basket Weaving at Fort Dells

Date: 1967
Description: Sarah Snake (WhiteEagle) is sitting on a bench and showing a tourist how to weave a basket. Other visitors are standing around her to watch the demonstrati...
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Mable Lowe Weaving a Basket

Date: 1967
Description: Over the shoulder view from behind of Mable Davis (maiden name) Lowe as she is weaving a basket outdoors. Martin Lowe is sitting nearby on a cushioned benc...

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