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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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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00135
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Owl Woman using a digging stick in the field by her cabin
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00137
Date: 1906-1919
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Older Hidatsa woman fashioning a traditional clay pot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00140
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Wooden fence surrounding a Hidatsa garden
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00142
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Stakes create a loom for Hidatsa mat weaving
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00144
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Hidatsa garden fences
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00146
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Log fence section around a Hidatsa garden plot
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00148
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's son with parts of a dog travois next to log house
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00150
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's son holding the hoop piece of a dog travois
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00152
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's small son holding a travois hoop
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00154
Date: 1918
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird's son holding the hoop frame for a dog travois
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00156
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird hafting a scapular hoe
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00158
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird softening antlers for a rake by soaking them in the river
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00160
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird fitting a wooden bow to a shaping frame
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00162
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Wolf Chief making rakes in the shade of a wagon
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00164
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Wolf Chief making traditional antler rakes
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00166
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Edward Goodbird trimming deer antlers
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00168
Date: 1914
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird prepares the surface of a scapula
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00170
Date: 1911
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird and Willie Hale paint a buffalo hide outside a house
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00171b
Date: 1908
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Buffalo Bird Woman (Wahini) with strips of bark
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00173
Date: 1913
Creator: Densmore, Frances,--1867-1957
Title: An Indian woman fleshing a stretched hide in an encampment
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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0004
Item: 00175
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Title: Goodbird holds a length of intestines and other men process an animal

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