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Potowatomi Playing Moccasin
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Postcard depicting a group of Potawatomi men at Stone Lake playing the game of moccasin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the Wisconsin Historical Society's first curator of photography.
1921
Colby, J. M. (Wausau, Wis.)
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WHi 24379
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