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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0034
Item: 01174
Date: 1915
Title: Dr. Charles L. Hall and Frances Densmore making camp near Crows Heart's place
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0034
Item: 01175
Date: 1915
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: Horses, tipis and people at the Elbowoods Campground on Fort Berthold Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01176
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Distant view of riverboat on river close to the Independence ferry's guidewire scaffolds
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01178
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: The Independence ferry boat ready to loading researcher George Haupt's specimens at Fort Berthold (N.D.)
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01180
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A paddleboat at the Independence landing on the Fort Berthold Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0023
Item: 01197
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird prepares to launch his loaded rowboat into the Missouri River
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0025
Item: 01272
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Two women and a child descend the bluff to the Missouri River
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01305
Date: 1915
Title: Dr Hall, Mrs. Crows Heart, and Frances Densmore travel in a wagon as they depart Fort Berthold Agency
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0025
Item: 01306
Date: 1883
Title: The 1883 Santee Normal Training School baseball team
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0026
Item: 01359
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird, Willie Hale, and another man at work 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: 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: 01406
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Men of the Bear, Buffalo, and Night medicine fraternities enter the Arikara medicine lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01408
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: One of the Arikara Bear medicine fraternity dances at the entry to the Medicine lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01410
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: An Arikara seated before an array of fine catlinite pipes in the Medicine lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01412
Date: 1907
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: "Daughters of a Chief" by Curtis (Two young Ogalala women ride on horseback into a tipi camp)
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01415
Date: 1910
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Two young Wishram Indian girls wearing regalia and gathering berries
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01417
Date: Circa 1910
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Young Indian child in a checked shirt leans beside the bark of a large tree
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01419
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: 01421
Date: 1906
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: A young Apache urges his horse across a stream
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0035
Item: 01423
Date: 1908
Creator: Curtis, Edward S.,--1868-1952
Title: Men of the medicine fraternities of the Arikara dance into the ceremonial earth lodge

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