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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eskimo duck dance to celebrate the spring hunt. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Illustration of four Indians on Madeline Island with a canoe in the water on the shore. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | An illustration of a storm encountered by a delegation of Indians on their way to Washington, D.C. |
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| Description: | Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan village with boats on the river in foreground. |
| Date: | 07 16 1898 |
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| Description: | A group of Ojibwa men fishing from boats. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A portrait of a descendant of Chief Oshkosh, probably Ernest Oshkosh, with one foot in a traditional canoe. This image is part of an exhibit about Native A... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Engraving made after a watercolor painting by John White during the Barlowe Expedition in Virginia, 1585-1587. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A Leech Lake Agency small pox patient is being put on a boat for removal to a hospital. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Joe Stoddard of the Chippewa tribe harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Statue of the monk with a cross in his left hand and his right hand upraised. Behind the statue is a plaque with a carving of an Indian in a canoe near a s... |
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| Description: | "Peavy Falls Group" of men and boys posed on bank of river. There is a man in a canoe in the river, and a footbridge in the background. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk man in a canoe on a river holding up an oar. Just out of frame on the left is a woman, who is perhaps holding a child. |
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| Description: | Canoes and wooden boats under a shelter at the Ojibway Museum. Other buildings, probably cottages, are visible in the background. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Madison Style ice boat model built by the Bernard family, c. 1917, rebuilt 1977. (Museum object #1983.292) |
| The Civil War sketches of Alexander Simplot were reproduced as engravings for use in newspapers. |
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| Description: | A Native American man from the Mille Lacs and Rainy Lake area in Minnesota. He is probably Chippewa (Ojibwa). Behind him are paddles leaning on a tree and ... |
| Speakers Bureau |
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| Tamara Thomsen is a WHS Historic Preservation member and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
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