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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: | 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 ... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian dance on snowshoes. (Plate 14). "In the northern latitudes of America, where the winters are long and very severe, from the heavy falls of snow wh... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian dance, with some wearing bear masks (Plate 18). "Next in importance to the buffalo hunts, and not less exciting and spirited in its character, is ... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches. |
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| Description: | Indian dancers on a platform, with drummers in the rear, at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A group of people watches an event, possibly put on by the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico. |
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| Description: | A group of people watching an event, possibly put on by the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Sioux tepees at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Apaches at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Apaches at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Sauk-Foxes at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The opening dance of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Captain Joseph Black Eagle (Waubli Sapa), Sioux, with a man and a woman at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
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| Description: | Bear Louse, Hubble Big Horse, and Pratt, Cheyenne Indians, at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Dr. War Eagle shoots at a target using a bow and arrow at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress. |
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| Description: | Members of the Menominee tribe pose during the Corpus Christi celebration, possibly held at the Keshena chapel. Pictured are, from left to right, Clara Chi... |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Powwow at the Red Cliff Indian Reservation on the shores of Lake Superior. |
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