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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00085
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: A Sioux woman, Yellow Cloud Woman (Mrs. Goodbird), smoking a small hide
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00087
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Mrs. Goodbird (Yellow Cloud Woman) tends a hide being smoked
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00089
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa man working design into collar of pot a woman has made
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00091-1
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: 00092
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Squash spits laid on the ground by a Hidatsa drying rack
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00094
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird gathering reeds for sleeping mats
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00096
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird poses with an armload of rushes
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00098
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman kneels by her weaving form
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00100
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Nearly completed rush mat inside a tent on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00102
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxi'diwiac Waheenee) putting honor marks on a model of Son of Star's bed
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00104
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxi'diwiac Waheenee) bundling reeds
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00106
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman (Maxi'diwiac Waheenee) scraping a hide
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00108
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: 00110
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman cradling a rush doll
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00113
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman makes a rush doll in the yard of her house
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00115
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Mrs. Willie L. Hall, Buffalo Bird Woman, and Mrs. Goodbird weaving reeds
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00117
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman weaving reeds with the sisters Mrs. Willie L. Hall and Mrs. Goodbird
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00119
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Mrs. Goodbird, Buffalo Bird Woman, and Mrs. Willie Hall make a traditional reed basket
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00121
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman and a small child in the yard of her Fort Berthold Reservation house
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00123
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: 00125
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman using her digging stick in a grassy field
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00127
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman gathering plants with horse and wagon in background
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00129
Date: 1908
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman works bark into the mud with a hoe
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00131
Date: 1908
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman prepares bark for basket-making
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00133
Date: 1910
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman working with a knife

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