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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00118
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Mrs. Willie L. Hall making traditional clay pot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00120
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman using an axe
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00122
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Yellow Hair works outdoors with plant material
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00124
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman and Many Growths fashion parts for a bullboat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00126
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A Hidatsa woman, likely Not A Woman, prepares vegetables for drying
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00128
Date: 1908
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman works soaking bark in a slough
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00130
Date: 1908
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman works mud into bark strips
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00132
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A man watching Buffalo Bird Woman working with a knife
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00134
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman using her digging stick
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00136
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa woman making a traditional clay pot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00138
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: An older Hidatsa woman pours something into a clay pot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00141
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Bundles of cut rushes used for mat weaving
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00143
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Reeds lean against a Hidatsa scaffold platform
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00145
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A section of a simple Hidatsa garden fence
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00147
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Twine and fabric lash the logs of a Hidatsa garden fence together
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00149
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's little son holding the hoop piece of a dog travois
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00151
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's little son holding a travois hoop
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00153
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's son by the hoop piece of a dog travois
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00155
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird trimming antlers
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00157
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird making a squash knife
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00159
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird secures a traditional Hidatsa recurve bow to a shaping form
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00161
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird gathering brush
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00163
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird making a bone hoe beside a log cabin
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00165
Date: 1914
Title: Wolf Chief making rakes in the shade of a wagon
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00167
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird whittles the shaft for a squash knife

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