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Ke-wa-din

Date: 1835
Description: Ke-wa-din, or the North Wind, a Chippeway (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Fond du Lac (1826...
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Wa-em-boesh-kaa, a Chippeway (Ojibwa) Chief

Date: 1835
Description: Wa-em-boesh-kaa, a Chippeway (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Fond du Lac (1826). He is smok...
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Gaylord Nelson Smoking Peace Pipe

Date: 08 1971
Description: Nelson smokes a peace pipe held by Bill Baker outside a building after a meeting with tribe members. To Nelson's far right is Governor Patrick Lucey, and i...
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O-Jib-Be-Ways

Date: 1844
Description: Group portrait of North American Indians. Portraits of the O-Jib-Be-Ways, and individual portraits, one smoking a pipe. Symbols corresponding to individual...
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Birch Bark Canoe, Chain of Lakes, Wis.

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Description: One man sits in the bow and one man stands on shore holding the stern of a birch bark canoe at the edge of a lake. They may be Indians. The man in the cano...
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Isham Family

Date: 1898
Description: Ira Robinson Isham family at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation. From left to right: Isham's son-in-law, Isham, his daughter, and Indian medicine m...
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Ojibwa Man

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Description: Caption on reverse reads: "An old Chippewa Indian meditates as he puffs a new-fangled pipe of peace." He is seated on a hillock of grass with a pole in one...
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Chippewa Lodge

Date: 1884
Description: A completed Chippewa (Ojibwa) lodge and a lodge under construction. A Native American woman is stitching something on the completed lodge. Another Native A...
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Two Women with Infant

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Description: Two women are sitting on a sofa, with an infant on the lap of the woman in the background.
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"Big George"

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Description: Portrait of an old Ojibwa man smoking a cigar.
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"Posking" (Chippewa)

Date: 10 15 1907
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man standing outside the open door of a wooden home with one hand on his hip, and in his other hand holding what may be a pipe restin...
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Lac Courte Oreilles Group Portrait

Date: 1910
Description: Outdoor group portrait of four Lac Courte Oreilles people: Mrs. [Lucille Mike] Kingfisher, Mitchell Quagon, with a pipe in his mouth, Lizzie Quagon, his wi...

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