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Potawatomi Moccasins

Date: 02 14 2008
Description: Pair of beaded Potawatomi moccasins.
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Beaded Mocassins

Date: 1900
Description: View from the heel of a pair of dark brown leather moccasins beaded in yellow, pink, green and white floral and plant designs. The moccasins were created a...
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100 - Scenes from Joy Camps Pageant

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying four photographs. Campers are in costume, standing in one photograph and seated in the others. In one photograph...
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101 - Scenes from Historical Pageant

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In each, campers are participating in a historical pageant, on a wooden stage in one photogra...
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119 - Joy Camps Directors and Chief Whirling Thunder

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one photograph Barbara Ellen Joy, camp owner and co-director, cooks over a large grill are...
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Men's Moccasin's

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Description: Men's buckskin moccasins. Puckered toes with purple cloth flaps that are patially decorated with floral pattern in seed beads. Sewn with the spot stich, bl...
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Hotel Monona Indian Room Cocktail Menu

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Description: Front cover and first page of cocktail menu from the Indian Room, Hotel Monona. The cover features a profile illustration of the head of an American Indian...
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Bandolier Bag

Date: 2016
Description: A beaded dance bag, which was once presented to General J.C. Starkweather by a Menominee Indian.
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Beaded Bandolier Bag

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Description: Bandolier bag with loom-beaded panel and strap. Bag, pocket, and strap are constructed of off-white cotton layered with wool, and trimmed with dark red mil...
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Beaded Bandolier Bag

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Description: Solid beaded bandolier bag. Appliqued seed beads on canvas and velvet cloth in a floral design. Yarn and loom beaded tabs at the bottom of the bag. Black v...
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Wooden Ojibwe Pipe Stem

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Description: A pipe stem presented to Wisconsin territorial governor James D. Doty at Fort Winnebago. Wooden stem is three inches at widest part. It is flat, half carve...
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Ojibwe Pipe Bowl

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Description: Tay-che-gwi-au-nee, a member of an Ojibwe band from the south shore of Lake Superior, presented this pipe to Wisconsin's territorial governor James Duane D...
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Wooden Ho-Chunk Spoon

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Description: A wooden Ho-Chunk spoon with a figure of an otter carved on the handle.
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Fiber and Buffalo Bag

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Description: A fiber and buffalo bag, Stockbridge-Munsee, 19th Century.
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Ojibwe Beaded Bandolier Bag

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Description: Small bandolier bag with minimal beadwork. Bag is constructed of black and blue wool. Pocket opens full width of bag and is lined with striped light brown ...
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Oneida Beaded Bag

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Description: A small beaded bag created by a member of the Oneida tribe.
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Beaded Reebok Baby Shoes

Date: 1990
Description: A pair of Reebok baby shoes, beaded by Ho-Chunk artist Linda Lucero. The beads are glass and the shoes were probably never worn.

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