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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00090
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Gilbert L. Wilson sits beside a small Hidatsa girl on a traditional rush mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00091-2
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Traditional Hidatsa woven rush sleeping mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00093
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Rushes collected for mats, weighed down by sticks in a field
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00095
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird holds a handful of rushes he is gathering
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00097
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird gathering rushes on the river bottom
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00099
Date: 1910
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman staking out a rush mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00101
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird woman weaving a rush sleeping mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00103
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxi'diwiac Waheenee) outside with hide and tools
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00105
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxi'diwiac Waheenee) weaving a mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00107
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman sharpening a hide scraper
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00109
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman weaving a mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00111
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman weaving a mat
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00114
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A little Amy watches Mrs. Willie L. Hall, Buffalo Bird Woman, and her mother Mrs. Goodbird weaving reeds
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00116
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Mrs. Willie L. Hall, Buffalo Bird Woman, and Mrs. Goodbird working with reeds
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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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