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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00054
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa bone tools and pottery on a house porch
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00055
Date: Circa 1900
Title: Susan Webb Hall (Mrs. Charles L.) and the women in her sewing circle, Elbowoods (N.D.)
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00057
Date: 1912
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: Hides And Eats softens hide on a scythe blade on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00059
Date: 1911
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hairy Coat's wife, Not A Woman, making pottery inside an earth lodge
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00060
Date: 1912
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: Mrs. Charging using elk horn beamer to remove hair from a hide
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00062
Date: 1913
Title: Chippewa woman demonstrates a process with a bowl and tool
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00064
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman with a model of a Hidatsa sleeping platform
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00066
Date: 1908
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman collects bark for basket-making
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00068
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa woman smoothing interior of a clay pot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00071
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Frederick Wilson sketching a woman making traditional Hidatsa burden basket inside a log house
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00073
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Wolf Chief kneels by a model of a traditional Hidatsa sleeping platform
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00075
Date: 1916
Title: Elderly Hidatsa woman, likely Owl Woman, using a digging stick
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00077
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman using her digging stick
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00079
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Four older Hidatsa women playing with a ball
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00080
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Four older Hidatsa women playing ball in the field
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00082
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Mrs. Goodbird smoking a small hide
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00084
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A Sioux woman, Yellow Cloud Woman (Mrs. Goodbird), tends to a hide
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00086
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Yellow Cloud Woman (Mrs. Goodbird) tends a hide smoker
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00088
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A Hidatsa woman smoothing exterior of a clay pot
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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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