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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0026
Item: 01352
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird, Willie Hale, and an unidentified man begin skinning a cow
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01394
Date: 1910
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: A small tipi and tent camp in a valley between pine and spruce covered slopes along the Spokane River in Washington State
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01399
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: A bear-skin clad Arikara Bear medicine fraternity member in a ceremony before the Sacred Cedar
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01400
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: A bear-skin clad member of the Bear medicine fraternity in a ceremony before the Sacred Cedar
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01401
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Bear's Teeth performs a Arikara ritual at the Sacred Cedar outside a medicine lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01402
Date: 1906
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Four Rings (or Four Horns) and four other men of the Arikara medicine the "Bear" or "Kunuh" fraternity sing beside the Sacred Cedar
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01403
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Four Horns at an altar in an Arikara medicine lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01405
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: The " Bear" emerges from an Arikara medicine lodge during a ceremony
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01407
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Little Sioux and Bear's Teeth with twenty other men of the Arikara medicine fraternities beside the medicine lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01409
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Formal photographic portrait of Bear's Belly in regalia of the Arikara's Bear or Kunush medicine fraternity
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01411
Date: 1910
Title: Two young Wishram Indian girls ride horseback near the Columbia River
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01413
Date: 1907
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Two young Ogalala women riding horseback across the South Dakota prairie
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01416
Date: circa 1910
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Small Indian girl in her regalia
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01418
Date: 1906
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: A young Apache waters his horse in a stream
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01420
Date: 1906
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Young Apache man riding bareback crossing a shallow stream
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01422
Date: 1906
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Ten Apache boys pose at their swimming hole
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01424
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Frank Heart and one other of the Arikara Buffalo medicine fraternity dance beside the ceremonial lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01426
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: One of the Buffalo medicine fraternity dances in an Arikara camp
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01428
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: The Buffalo (Chiwiku/Shedding Buffalo) medicine men dancing in an Arikara ceremony
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01430
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Four Arikara men of the Black-tailed Deer/Branched Horn medicine fraternity dance by the Sacred Cedar
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01432
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Spotted Horse, Harry Gillette and two men of the Duck medicine fraternity dance around the Sacred Cedar of the Arikara
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01434
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: An Arikara Medicine Ceremony at the Beaver Creek camp on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01445
Date: 1910
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Two young Piegan women gathering goldenrod in a Montana field
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01440
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Bear's Teeth of the Night medicine fraternity leads other men an Arikara ceremony
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0030
Item: 01661
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Possible Hidatsa eagle trap on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation

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