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Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
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Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder)

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Description: Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder), a 120-year-old Winnebago warrior chief, posing in front of a typical dwelling (chipoteke), with two men leaning against ...
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Wona-Chia-Ah Chea-Da

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Description: "Indian Tent and Ho-Chunk Women." Four Ho-Chunk women are sitting under a basic traditional structure (chipoteke).
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Group of Native Americans

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Description: Group of five Native Americans with three men sitting, and one man and child standing. The standing man is holding what may be a pipe.
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Professor Edward Ross in Tahiti

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Group portrait of Professor Ross and five friends in native dress in Tahiti. Two of the people are sitting on a stack of logs, with a cat sitting between t...
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Chippewa Medicine Man and His Family

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Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) medicine man John King, with his wife, grandchild, and family standing near a birch wigwam on the Lake Court Oreilles reservation. John K...
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Native American Mother

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Description: A Chippewa mother with two children at Minocqua, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first ...
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Ho-Chunk Group near Tents in a Field

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk men and three Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of tents in a field. The women are wrapped in plaid fringed shawls, and the men are we...
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Outdoor Portrait of Twelve Ho-Chunk Women and Girls

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Description: Outdoor portrait of twelve Ho-Chunk women and girls posing standing and sitting in front of several trees, possibly at a powwow. They are all wearing many ...
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Frisk Cloud Sitting on a Steer

Date: 1905
Description: Frisk Cloud (MauhHeTaChaEKah) is riding at cow at a powwow. Watching Frisk, left to right, are two unidentified men, Albert Thunder (CheNunkEToKaRaKah), Ge...
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Ho-Chunk Men and Woman in Front of Awning

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Description: A Ho-Chunk woman, standing between two Ho-Chunk men dressed in regalia, including feathered headdresses, in front of an awning. Probably at a powwow. A dog...
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European Americans Posed around Medicine Drum

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Description: European American men, women, and children posing sitting and standing underneath an arbor around a medicine drum and a Ho-Chunk man.
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Members of Blue Wing Band with Steer

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man is posing sitting on a steer, and two Ho-Chunk men are posing standing to the left. They are members of the Blue Wing Band with a steer for ...
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Ho-Chunk Men, Women, and Child in Front of Tent

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Description: Ho-Chunk men, women, and child posing standing in front of a tent. The four men are wearing hats, and the three women are wearing more traditional dress. T...
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk men, women, and children, and a few European American men, posing standing in front of tents in a field. They are members of the Blue Wing...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Children

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Description: Group of people under and near a tent. One Ho-Chunk woman is sitting outside a canvas awning holding an infant, with a Ho-Chunk girl standing behind her. A...
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Ho-Chunk Group at the Green Cloud Powwow

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Description: Ho-Chunk men and women sitting in and around a temporary Ho-Chunk lodge with its sides raised. Identified as the Green Cloud tent at Powwow. The Ho-Chunk m...
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Ho-Chunk Individuals and Dog Near Ciiporoke

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Description: Three unidentified Ho-Chunk people and a dog are sitting outside of their canvas-covered ciiporoke. A summer house can be seen through the trees.
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Ho-Chunk Men with European American Men

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk men and two European American men posing standing outside a teepee. The side of the teepee is raised and shows a Ho-Chunk man and woman sitt...
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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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