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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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Studio Portrait of Alex Lonetree and his Wife

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Alex Lonetree, sitting and his wife, standing. They came to live with the Winnebagos after the last remov...
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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...
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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...
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Cranberry Pickers

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

Date: 1948
Description: HochunKra School, a Winnebago school.
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Studio Portrait of Mamie Bearchief Funmaker

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Mamie (Minnie) Bearchief Funmaker (HoHumpCheKaRaWinKah) posing standing near a chair in front of ...
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Portrait of John and Mary Dick

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman in front of a painted backdrop. The man is posing sitting, and the woman is standing beside him and...
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Young Ho-Chunk Man in Style of an Unmarried Man

Date: 1902
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Frank Washington Lincoln (ChakShepKonNeKah), dressed in the style of a single man with crossed bandolier bags. He is wearing...
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Studio Portrait of Little Soldier and Wife

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting and wearing regalia. The man is holding a rifle and another object upright with his left hand. L...
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Copy Photograph of Portrait of Little Soldier and Wife

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting and wearing regalia, the former is also holding a rifle and another object ...
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Portrait of Alex Longtree and Daughter Emma Longtree Lowe

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posing sitting, with a Ho-Chunk woman in a shawl standing next to him. The man is wearing ...
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Two Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk women posing standing. They are wearing dresses, and shell and bugle necklaces and silver ea...
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Studio Portrait of Henry Stacy and Mountain Wolf Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. The man is wearing a suit, tie, and hat, and the woman is wearin...
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Thomas Thunder and Woman Looking at Letter

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man in full regalia, including a Sioux headdress and holding a pipe, posing standing with a wh...
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Studio Portrait of Benjamin Thundercloud in Regalia

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk man, Benjamin Thundercloud, posing sitting in regalia for initiation into the medicine l...
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk woman, standing outdoors in front of a tent, wearing a Sioux headdress and a Chippewa bandoleer.
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Copy Photograph of Jim Swallow and William Massey

Date: 1908
Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk man, Jim Swallow, in regalia posing standing and holding a bow in front of cloth barriers or tents. From a powwow group from ...
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Studio Portrait of a Young Ho-Chunk Woman

Date: 1935
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting with her hands clasped. She is wearing a beaded head band, a dark b...
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Copy Photograph of Ho-Chunk Man in Regalia

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing outside a building wearing a Sioux Bonnet, woodland design breech cloth, beaded shirt, bandoleer, and gart...

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