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Winnebago Camp — Old Monegar

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Description: View of the Winnebago camp Old Monegar at Morrison Creek Bottoms. A man wearing a hat, and a black and white dog, are walking in front of the living shelte...
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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...
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"The White Rabbit Skin"

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph images of a Native American man, woman, and young boy, members of the Ute Indian Tribe, looking at a rabbit skin.
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"The Warrior And His Bride"

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback.
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Delaware Lenape Log House

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Description: Dogs and women outside of a Delaware Lenape log house.
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Osage Ceremony

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Description: An Osage woman prepares to be married to the corn. A man leads her horse.
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Papago Indians

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Description: A group of Papago Indians, possibly near the San Xavier Del Bac Mission, near Tucson.
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Nambe Day School

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Description: A page from an album of photographs of Pueblo Indian Day Schools, showing the Nambe Day School. Miss Lizzie M. Lampson, the teacher, gathers with others n...
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Sioux Give Away Horses

Date: 1897
Description: Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches.
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Sioux Women's Meeting

Date: 1897
Description: Slightly elevated view across field of a Sioux women's Episcopal Convocation meeting at the Rosebud Agency. The women, and a number of children, are sittin...
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Indian Women

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Description: Indian women dressed for a parade at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Indian Women

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Description: Indian women dressed for a parade at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction which is near Minocqua. The group is standing in front of a wigwam, and a woman in the r...
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Natwe Family

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Description: Group portrait of the Natwe Family with three women, three men, a boy, and a puppy.
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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Main Street, First Street Intersection

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Description: Native American man, and two women in a wagon pulled by a single horse. Storefronts include a jeweler on the left with an awning advertising books and stat...
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Native American Women on Water Street

Date: 1911
Description: A boy is standing on a snow-covered wooden sidewalk on the left, and Native American women wrapped in blankets are walking on the sidewalk on the right. Vi...
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Cutting Roots for Medicine

Date: 09 1923
Description: Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) women cutting roots for medicine. A quilt hangs on a line in the background and a chicken walks near the women.
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Traveling Medicine Show

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Description: A group of people posed among tents, probably a traveling medicine show. On the table in the foreground, a contortionist is visible. A banner above a stage...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Couple

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk couple, John Buffalohead and wife Mary Snowball Decorra Buffalohead, with their dog lying at their feet. Clans ke...

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