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Unidentified Man Dancing
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An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather headdress and is carrying a Plains-style pipe bag.
Van Schaick, Charles
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