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Buffalo Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Ceremonial Indian dance (Plate 8).

"All tribes have their medicine songs particular for the hunting of each animal they choose to go in pursuit of, and b...

Photograph

Indians Visiting Dodge County Fair

Date: 1898
Description: Native American Indians in traditional dress outside their teepees (tipis) at the Dodge County Fair. There is a large building in the background along with...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Camp and Dance Ritual

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux camp and dance ritual, including a man wearing a buffalo horn headdress. In the background there are people sitt...
Book or Pamphlet

Aboriginal Port Folio Frontispiece

Date: 08 1835
Description: The frontispiece design on blue paper, featuring the likeness of an Indian chief, for "The Aboriginal Port Folio".
Map or Atlas

Map of Forest Lodge on Lake Namakagon

Date: 1930
Description: Original map made with watercolor and inkwash. Includes a legend of buildings, roads, natural features and other details of the lodge. Inset at bottom has ...
Photograph

Group of Actors

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: A group of actors posing outdoors together in costume. They are participants in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory o...

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