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| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Funeral of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Offering of the Mandan Indians, showing human and animal skulls. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | The Elkhorn Pyramid, on the Upper Missouri River. Passing Indians would add horns to the pyramid, and sometimes add red marks to the horns to indicate the ... |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall... |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
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| Description: | Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments. |
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| Description: | Little girl under the "Aztalan Mound Park" sign, in a field. Another person stands in the background on one of the mounds. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Ceremony for erecting tablets on the Observatory Hill Mounds performed by University of Wisconsin summer session students. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Ceremonial performers in traditional Indian costume pose near a steamboat. |
| Date: | 10 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for a section of Interstate Highway I-90 near the Wisconsin Dells, with a group of Native Americans watching from above. A Dells Fargo ... |
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| Description: | Two Native American men, one of whom is holding his hand palm up, pose with two piles of spirit stones. |
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| Description: | A view of a group of men wearing long overcoats and hats, standing on rough ground. Two men in the center are shaking hands, and a few others are holding s... |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ... |
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| Description: | View of a Native American dancer at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. The event, which began in 1916, is held on the bank of the Wisconsin River. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a scene from the Apostle Island Indian Pageant. A large group of young children in white shirts are sitting along a sloped hill ne... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a scene from the Apostle Island Indian Pageant. Two children are sitting aboard a covered wagon pulled by a pair of steers while t... |
| Date: | 07 15 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the south of a crowd gathered to witness and celebrate the laying of the cornerstone of the new St. Mary of the Seven Dolors Catholic Ch... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down valley of a procession of hundreds of pilgrims walking up the hill to St. Anne's Chapel which is lined with Stations of the Cross. The crowd is w... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Pilgrims gathered outside the shrine. Many of the people are sitting on the ground among the tree. There are banners hanging in front of the stone chapel. |
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