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Indian Sugar Camp

Date: 1850
Description: Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar...
Photograph

Menominee Child

Date: 1909
Description: A Menominee child, probably photographed on the reservation near Keshena and Neopit, Wisconsin. He is standing outside in front of a log cabin, and an axe ...
Photograph

Tecumsa and Family

Date: 1922
Description: Tecumsa, a Potowatomi, and his family. Tecumsa is standing in the back in the center, and a man is sitting in front of him on a blanket holding up an hatch...
Photograph

Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
Photograph

Carpenter Shop at Indian Industrial School

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Description: Students working in a carpenter shop at the Indian Industrial School.
Photograph

Sloyd Room At Indian Industrial School

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Description: Students working in a sloyd room at the Indian Industrial School. A sloyd is a type of wood-carving knife.
Painting

Flintknapper

Date: 1997
Description: A watercolor of a person flintknapping, a process used to make prehistoric stone tools.
Photograph

Annie Sun with Deer Hide

Date: 1941
Description: Mrs. Annie Sun stretching a deer hide.
Photograph

Splitting Bark Off a Tree Trunk

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Description: Ojibwa Indians splitting bark off a birch tree. The bark will be used to make a canoe.
Photograph

Native American Blister Rust Crew

Date: 1933
Description: Three men working near a tree. During 1933 Menominee Indians protected over 4000 acres of white pines from the blister rust threat.
Photograph

Potawatomi Family

Date: 1920
Description: Potawatomi family standing in front of a log cabin. Elders identified the woman in the center as Mrs. Frank Young, and the man on the right as community le...
Photograph

Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
Photograph

Chief "White Wing" at Pow Wow

Date: 1926
Description: Portrait of Native American man sitting in the grass wearing headdress, beaded pants and moccasins. An axe is lying in the grass at his side.
Painting

Forming the Bow or Stem

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Description: An Indian man sits in front of a dwelling forming a bow or stem for a canoe that he's making. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu).
Painting

Whittling Strips for Sides

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Description: An Ojibwa Indian whittles strips of wood for the sides of a canoe under construction. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu).
Postcard

Vi Teeples and her Eden Point, by Lake Arbutus

Date: 1986
Description: Painting of a woman standing on a beach and holding a spear point in her hand. In the sand near her is a spear, several arrowheads, and a bag. She is weari...
Photograph

Making Twine

Date: 1909
Description: Stereograph of three Native American men and a child, outdoors, in front of a wigwam. On the ground is a basket of materials. The man on the left is standi...
Photograph

Making a Birch Bark Canoe

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Description: Three women are kneeling and binding birch bark to a canoe frame. A girl is standing behind the canoe in the center. Buildings are in the background.

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