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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00035
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird wrapped in a buffalo robe in front of a log house on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00037
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Wolf Chief wrapped in a buffalo robe in the yard of his home in Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00041
Date: 1911
Title: A small boy plays with a carved wooden instrument of the Notched Stick Society, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00043
Date: Circa 1920
Title: Ceremonial spear hafted with feathers
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00045
Date: Circa 1915
Title: Three tree branches stuck in ground with cloth and straw tied around tops
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00047
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Young Helen, Wolf Chief's daughter with a rake at their homesite on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00049
Date: 1890-1918
Creator: Steinbrueck, E. R. (Ernst Reinhold),--1836-
Title: Bone and stone tools of the Hidatsa in North Dakota
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00051
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Interior of a Hidatsa earth lodge with a woman bending over some pots
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00053
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa tools and pots on a 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: 00056
Date: 1912
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: Mrs. Charging (Julia) tapping loose hair from a hide on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00058
Date: 1912
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: Hides And Eats softens a hide at the Crow's Heart place on 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: 00061
Date: 1913
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: Chippewa woman with a shallow bowl near an encampment
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00063
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman bends over the hide she is scraping, Fort Berthold
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00065
Date: 1908
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman strips bark from a tree on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00067
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa woman making clay pot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00069
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa woman working with a grinding stone on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00070
Date: 1911
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Not A Woman works on a piece of pottery in her earth lodge home
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00072
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Many Bows scrapes hair from a hide on post outside her home
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00074
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A Hidatsa woman, likely Owl Woman, with a digging stick in a field
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00076
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird gathering rushes
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00078
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman bending over a hide she is scraping
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00081
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Yellow Hair cutting small pieces of wood by a tipi
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00083
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Yellow Cloud Woman (Mrs. Goodbird) ties a hide to a smoking frame

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