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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0016
Item: 00809
Title: Women in traditional regalia watch men in an Owl Dance
Date: Circa 1910
Creator: Olson, Fred,--1876-1916
Inscription/Marks: On the front is the title: North Dakota Indians in the Midst of a Owl Dance, Fred Olsen. On the back: col. 86-809 and postcard marks.
Summary: A group of traditionally dressed women are watching a dozen or more men in full regalia as they dance an Owl Dance. Likely this is a photograph taken around 1910 by Fred Olsen, on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The women wear long breastplates of hair pipes, and dresses with dentalium or elks teeth. The men who are dancing wear roaches or feather headdresses.
Red ID: PH_I_140294 Image ID: 101437 Image Notes: 00086-00809

Collection: 00086 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Date: 1875-Circa 1960

Summary: Consists of prints and some copy negatives of several photographers on the Fort Berthold Reservation, primarily Gilbert L. Wilson, and also including Frances Densmore, Frank Fiske, Fred Olson, Sumner Matteson, and several unidentified photographers. Ewald wrote identification of many photographs in his collection based upon suggestions from the people of Fort Berthold. Images include celebrations and gatherings, dances, sweat lodges, Little Missouri camps, cradles, portraits, Buffalo Bird Woman, Wolf Chief, Goodbird, Indian crafts and skills, artifacts, wood gathering, gardening, food processing and cooking, earth lodges, bullboats, travois, and Indian cowboys.

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