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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) medicine man John King, with his wife, grandchild, and family standing near a birch wigwam on the Lake Court Oreilles reservation. John K... |
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| Description: | An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat... |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) family moving their disassembled wagon and grindstone from one village to another on two canoes somewhere in northern Wisconsin. This i... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) group wearing traditional clothing photographed by A.J. Kingsbury, a photographer who produced many "documentary" postcards. This image... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of Chippewa (Ojibwa) girls in white western clothing and paper feathered headdresses for a celebration commemorating the return of 80 Native Americ... |
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| Description: | Two Native American infants wrapped in cradleboards. A woman is on the left holding one of the boards, which are propped outdoors in front of trees. This i... |
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| Description: | A Chippewa mother with two children at Minocqua, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first ... |
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| Description: | A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul... |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) mother with two children, one of whom is in a cradleboard, at the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about N... |
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| Description: | "John," a Native American wearing a combination of traditional and western dress. Among the western items he is wearing are black velvet, sleigh bells, a f... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard depicting Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first cur... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian from the Bad River Indian Reservation at Odanah. The man is we... |
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| Description: | A portrait of an elderly Native American man identified only as "the oldest Indian, Solon Springs, Wisconsin." This image is part of an exhibit about Nati... |
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| Description: | Pussafuss, an elderly Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first curator of p... |
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| Description: | White Feather, an elderly Chippewa (Ojibwa) man said to be 129-years-old. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbi... |
| 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: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A formal photographic portrait of the Potowatomi chief Shab-eh-nay (Shau-be-na, or Shabbona), who died in 1859. Shab-eh-nay was photographed shortly before... |
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| Description: | A formal portrait of the Potowatomie chief Shaubena or (Shabona) made at Hennepin, Illinois shortly before his death in 1859. Shaubena was a grandnephew o... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr... |
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