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Menominee Ceremonial Dance

Date: 1942
Description: A Menominee ceremonial dance. The dancers are wearing Native American ceremonial dress. Although Roman Catholic missions had banned many Native American ce...
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Menominee Indian Family

Date: 1931
Description: A portrait of a Menominee family in traditional dress. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction which is near Minocqua. The group is standing in front of a wigwam, and a woman in the r...
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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New Dells Lumber Company Logging Camp

Date: 1920
Description: Vicinity of the New Dells Lumber Company logging camp. Chippewa family on a snowy day at their camp site.
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Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians

Date: 10 1914
Description: Fourth Annual Conference of American Indians taken in front of Lathrop Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Included are: Mr. (William) Kershaw (M...
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Visitors Watch a Burial Mound Excavation

Date: 1935
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Outing Club watch the excavation of a burial mound at the Outlet group in 1935.
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Man and Child in Open Wigwam

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Description: A Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) man and child inside a wigwam with the sides rolled up. A cat is walking in the grass in front of the man.
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Parson's Indian Village

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Description: Exterior view of Parson's Indian Village, a tourist attraction on Highway 12 styled after a Zuni pueblo. Caption reads: "Zuni Pueblo-Parson's Indian Villag...
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Native American Family

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Description: Native American family, dressed in native clothing, standing on blanket outdoors.
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Drummers at Pow Wow

Date: 08 07 1967
Description: Harry Funmaker (left) of Wisconsin Dells, and Ray Tahawah of Lawton, Oklahoma, drumming. A crowd of young people is in the background.
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Native American Dancing by Drums

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Description: A Native American man dances near a line of drums, possibly a powwow.
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Chippewa Indians near a Stretched Bear Hide

Date: 1907
Description: View towards a man standing with two children, a boy wearing a hat and suspenders, and a girl wearing a dress. They are standing in front of a bear hide st...
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Ho-Chunk Man Paddling Canoe

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Description: Ho-Chunk man in a canoe on a river holding up an oar. Just out of frame on the left is a woman, who is perhaps holding a child.
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Ho-Chunk Man Performing Handstand

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Description: Ho-Chunk man performing a handstand in front of two Ho-Chunk men standing on the left. There is a child sitting in one of several horses horse-drawn wagons...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Girl Making Fry Bread

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Description: Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ...
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Ho-Chunk Man Walking with European American Man

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Description: View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma...
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At Depot, Stockyard across Tracks

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Description: A Native American man is in the foreground, and three Native American women and two Native American children are standing on the wooden boardwalk near the ...
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Houses at Skunk Hill

Date: 1920
Description: Informal outdoor group portrait of Native American men and boys. One man is wearing a feather on his head, a beaded sash, and beaded pants. Two buildings a...
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The Moccasin Game

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Description: Several Indian men kneel on a rug to play the moccasin game. One man is holding a drum and wearing a headdress (also called a war bonnet).

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