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White Women's Shoes

Date: 1811
Description: A pair of off-white, kid leather women's shoes with shirred ribbon decoration on the top. They were most likely worn by Sylvia (Putnam) Hamilton (donor Gra...
Painting

Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes

Date: 1821
Description: Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes.
Print

Key Way No Wut or Going Cloud

Date: 1827
Description: Lithographic portrait of Key-Way-No-Wut or Going Cloud, the war chief of the Lac du Flambeau band of Chippewa smoking a pipe.
Photograph

Colonel C.A. Wood

Date: 1863
Description: Colonel C.A. Wood posing for a full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait in his Union uniform. His right hand is resting on a plinth, and he is holding h...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man William Hindsley

Date: 1880
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, William Hindsley (Hensley) (CooNooChoNeeNikKah). He is holding a pipe tomahawk and is wearing bandolie...
Photograph

Older Ho-Chunk Man Green Grass with Pistol and Dog

Date: 1880
Description: Green Grass (HaWinChoKah), in period dress with the exception of his Ho-Chunk moccasins. He is holding a pistol, and his dog is lying next to his chair on ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1880
Description: Three unidentified men in a mix of contemporary and Ho-Chunk clothing. The man sitting on the right is wearing beads and a necklace made of large German si...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Red Bird Flying and Another Ho-Chunk Woman

Date: 1880
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing on the left wearing rings and file bracelets, and wrapped in a plaid sha...
Photograph

Self-Portrait of Man

Date: 1882
Description: Charles J. Van Schaick sitting on a stone balustrade in front of a painted background, ca. 1882–1885. The photograph was probably taken by one of his assis...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Annie Blowsnake

Date: 1882
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Annie Blowsnake Thundercloud (WaConChaSkaWinKah), posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing many neckla...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

Date: 1885
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young woman displaying her shell necklace, silver bracelets, and earrings.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Two Standing Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1885
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two unidentified Ho-Chunk women. The woman on the left is wearing a dress with many panels of...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Girl Wearing Wampum

Date: 1885
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk girl posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. She has her left hand resting on an overstuffed tasseled cha...
Photograph

Organized Winnebago Indian Show Company

Date: 1885
Description: In this photograph, copied by Van Schaick from another photographer, Wild West show promoter Tom Roddy is standing on the far right, along with his cast of...
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Man, John Johnson, in Regalia

Date: 1885
Description: Studio full-length portrait of a Ho-Chunk man with short hair posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. Identified as John Johnson. John was a private...
Photograph

Moccasin

Date: 1885
Description: Early carte-de-visite of a Ho-Chunk man identified as Moccasin. The backdrop indicates the photograph came from Charles Van Schaick’s studio, but it may ha...
Photograph

S.M. Babcock

Date: 1888
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of group of nine men, identified on the reverse as associates of the Geneva, New York Experiment Station. St...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Frank Greencloud-Redcloud and Ed Greengrass

Date: 1888
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Ho-Chunk men, Frank Greencloud-Redcloud (NotchKeTaKah), left, and Ed Greengrass (CheWinCheKayRayHeKah). Frank Greencloud-Red...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Luke Snowball and Annie Waukon

Date: 1890
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk couple, Annie Waukon (HumpMeNuKah) and Luke (Duke) Snowball (NySaGaShiskKah). Anni...
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Boy

Date: 1890
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified boy holding a hat with a wide ribbon band on his knee.

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