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Painting

The Landing of Jean Nicolet

Date: 1904
Description: Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec...
Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Photograph

Homecoming Powwow

Date: 1908
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...
Photograph

Chach-scheb-nee-nick-ah (Young Eagle) Winnebago Indian

Date: 1904
Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Chach-scheb-nee-nick-ah (Young Eagle) looking off to the right.
Photograph

Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
Photograph

Portrait of Clara St. Cyr and Lucy Davis

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two smiling Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) women identified as Clara St. Cyr, a Nebraska Winnebago, lef...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Front cover of a German language advertising catalog for International Harvester's Milwaukee line of harvesting machinery. Features a chromolithograph illu...
Photograph

Indian Children

Date: 1909
Description: A group of four Native American children thought to have been photographed at the Menominee Reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Amer...
Photograph

Menominee Children

Date: 1909
Description: A group of five Menominee children, thought to be photographed on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Ame...
Photograph

Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1900
Description: Two Ho-Chunk men wearing beaded shirts are gathering cranberries (hoocake) alongside a Ho-Chunk woman and a white man and woman. A large group of cranberry...
Photograph

Cranberry Pickers

Date: 1905
Description: Winnebago Indians and Black River Falls townspeople harvesting cranberries.
Photograph

Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Photograph

Ah-la-Kat, Nephew of Chief Joseph

Date: 01 1906
Description: Studio portrait of Ah-la-Kat, nephew of Chief Joseph and member of the Shahaptian, Nez Perce, a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the ...
Photograph

Chief Yshidiapas or Aleck-Shea-Ahoos

Date: 1905
Description: Studio portrait of Chief Yshidiapas or Aleck-Shea-Ahoos (Plenty Coups) in Native Dress with Ornaments. He was part of the Siouan, Crow tribe.
Photograph

Ahblocoenazin (Standing On the Prairie)

Date: 01 1900
Description: Studio portrait of Ahblocoenazin (Standing On the Prairie), called John Grant (Mixed Blood), with Peace Medal, Headdress and Bear Claw Necklace. Part of th...
Photograph

Portrait (Front) of Sub-Chief Arupa Esash

Date: 05 1905
Description: Studio portrait of Sub-Chief Arupa Esash (Big Shoulder Blade). Part of the Siouan (Sioux) and Crow Tribes.
Photograph

Portrait of Candi Tanka

Date: 03 1905
Description: Studio portrait of Candi Tanka (Big Tobacco) with headdress and breastplate, holding pipe. Part of Siouan (Sioux) and Yankton Tribes
Photograph

Portrait of George Caperty

Date: 02 1901
Description: Studio portrait of George Caperty in partial native dress with ornaments and beaded bag. Part of Shahaptian and Yakima Tribes
Photograph

Portrait of Car-Io-Scuse

Date: 01 1903
Description: Studio portrait of Car-Io-Scuse (Curly Bear) in native dress with ornaments. Part of the Siouan (Sioux) and Blackfoot Tribes.
Photograph

Portrait of William Charley

Date: 04 1905
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of William Charley, interpreter, in native dress with horned headdress. Part of Shahaptian and Umatilla Tribes.

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