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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk men and women sitting and standing around a large medicine drum in an area portioned off by canvas barriers in front of a lodge. Identified as the... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Indians playing a game at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. "The man in the center is holding counting sticks. A constant drumming is kept up to make concentra... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of young Native-American men dressed in traditional clothing standing around an International R-Line truck. The young men are with a small... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Indian cultivated garden beds, partially covered with snow, "South of West over the big area." Now known as the Eulrich Site, a mile from the shore of Lake... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A small pox patient's Leech Lake Agency teepee, burned after the man's removal. |
| Date: | 06 27 1900 |
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| Description: | Indian girls perform a doll drill for school entertainment at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon. |
| Date: | 07 04 1901 |
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| Description: | Indian camp at Nespelim [Nespelem] at the Coville Agency in Washington. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A group of people watches an event, possibly put on by the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Norb Bybee shoots a self-portrait with his camera of petroglyphs that are carved in the face of a rock shelter near Gullikson's Glen. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A totem pole erected in 1927 in honor of the aboriginal inhabitants of Wisconsin. Potawatomi chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-November 27, 1930), an ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Little Plume with his son Yellow Kidney occupies the position of honor, the space at the rear opposite the entrance. The pictu... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The original caption reads: "Medicine-pipes, of which the Piegan have many, are simply long pipe-stems variously decorated with beads, paint, feathers, and... |
| Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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| Description: | Indian "Powwow" and Lacrosse contest between various Indian reservations. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Powwow at the Red Cliff Indian Reservation on the shores of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Native American at a Red Cliff Indian Reservation Powwow on the shores of Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Frisk Cloud (MauhHeTaChaEKah) is riding at cow at a powwow. Watching Frisk, left to right, are two unidentified men, Albert Thunder (CheNunkEToKaRaKah), Ge... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A group of performers taking a break from entertaining tourists. The man on the left is wearing a traditional Ho-Chunk beaded shirt, belt, and breechcloth ... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Groups of Ho-Chunk and non-Indians gathering on the streets of Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A group of Ho-Chunk women wrapped in shawls gathering at the temporary Ho-Chunk village. Identified as the Homecoming Powwow at the intersection of Main an... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk man dressed in a mix of native and contemporary clothing dancing around singers seated around a drum. Ho-Chunk men are sitting and standing arou... |
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