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Daniel Bread

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Daniel Bread wearing a suit.
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
Photograph

Aquanama and Paul Ackenebowa

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Menominee Indian chief Aquanama and Menominee Indian Paul Ackenebowa, seated, facing front, both wearing hats, coats and n...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Pima Agency Classroom

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Description: A man in a classroom at the Pima Agency, near Phoenix.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
Photograph

Cherokee Man

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Description: Head and shoulders vignetted studio portrait of Vance McSpadden of the Cherokee High School Class of 1898.
Photograph

Dream Drum Dancers

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Description: Five Ho-Chunk performers in front of cloth barriers or tents. A powwow group from the 1908 Homecoming. The five are full brothers according to the 1881 tri...
Photograph

Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians

Date: 10 1914
Description: Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians taken in front of Lathrop Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Included are: Mr. (William) Kershaw (M...
Photograph

Charles E. Brown Among Burial Mounds on the Edgewood Campus

Date: 05 05 1939
Description: Charles E. Brown poses near a historic tablet marking one of a row of conical burial mounds on the Park and Pleasure drive on the north shore of Lake Wingr...
Photograph

Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk men posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the left holding the blanket, is Louis Bearchief. Both men a...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man in Suit and Tie

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing sitting. He is wearing a suit and tie. Probably Charley Blackdeer.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Young Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk man posing sitting. He is wearing a suit jacket and necktie. Probably John Blac...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of George Greengrass and his Wife

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing next to his wife who is posing sitting. They are identified as George Gree...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charles Smith and Wife

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, Charles Smith, and his wife. The man is posing standing by a prop stone wall, and is wearing a suit jacket, vest w...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Luke Snowball Jr.

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, Luke Snowball Jr., posing sitting and wearing a shirt, tie, and hat in front of a painted backdrop.
Photograph

Portrait of Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1905
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man sitting and wearing modern dress, flanked by two Ho-Chunk women standing and wearing several necklaces and sh...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Thomas Thunder, posing sitting and wearing a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, t...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk men, one posed standing and the other sitting, both wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, ties, and hats. Probably J...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Henry Thunder and Soldier Woman

Date: 1905
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posing sitting and wearing a suit jacket, tie, and hat. Next to him on the rig...

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