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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01163
Date: Circa 1910
Title: A log cabin with a sod roof with buttes in the distance
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01165
Date: 1907
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Strikes Many Women (Wolf Chief's wife) inside a canvas wall tent
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01167
Date: 1907
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward S. Curtis's camp on Beaver Creek on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01169
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman loads dried prairie turnips into a bag by her log cabin
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01171
Date: Circa 1910
Title: People and wagons in a tipi camp on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01173
Date: 1904
Creator: Ingersoll, T. W.--(Truman Ward),--1862-1922
Title: Postcard scene entitled "Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904--The Indian Camp"
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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: 01177
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: The Independence ferry boat approaching the landing, Fort Berthold (N.D.)
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01179
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A paddleboat alongside the Independence landing on the Fort Berthold Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0034
Item: 01181
Date: Circa 1910
Title: The riverboat "The Elk" at the Sanish wharf, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0023
Item: 01218
Date: Circa 1910
Creator: Olsen, Fred,--photographer
Title: A postcard image showing the buttes near the iced-over waters of the Missouri River Valley near Fort Berthold Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0025
Item: 01290
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird at his home with a dog travois on display
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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: 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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