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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: 0001
Item: 00002
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Hidatsa woman and two girl children smoking a brush arbor on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00004
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Wolf Chief with a traditional hide carrying sack on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00006
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Wolf Chief with Hidatsa carrying pouch over his shoulders, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00008
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Wolf Chief holding a Hidatsa carrying bag on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00010
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Wolf Chief holding a traditional Hidatsa carrying bag
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00012
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird models a robe painted under Buffalo Bird Woman's direction, outside his log home, on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00014
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird displaying hide cut to make moccasins outside a wood-frame house on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00016
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird with moccasins he is making
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00018
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird holds cut hide for a pair of moccasins
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00020
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird holds tanned and cut hide pattern and an almost finished moccasin at his log cabin
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00022
Date: 1918
Title: Goodbird with leather moccasin parts, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00024
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird holds partially finished moccasins
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00026
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird holds nearly finished hide moccasins
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00028
Date: Circa 1920
Title: Irregular shaped image of a Hidatsa Lone Man pipe owned by Mercy Walker, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00031
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Indian pictographs and carvings on rock walls
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00034
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird models buffalo robe in the doorway of his log house on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00036
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Frederick N
Title: Gilbert Wilson looks at a Hidatsa burden basket on the Fort Berthold Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00040
Date: Circa 1915
Title: A parfleche being decorated outside
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00042
Date: Circa 1915
Title: A quillwork decorated buffalo robe displayed on a wall

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