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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0010
Item: 00548
Title: Mrs. Alfred Chase posed with her daughter Cora and small sons Nathan and Claude
Date: Circa 1910
Inscription/Marks: On the front: "ewald" on a typed sticker. On the back: col. 86-548, Ewald ownership stamps,tape, "491", and the information noted in the summary.
Summary: Posing against the rough interior of a log cabin on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in around 1910 is a Hidatsa woman identified as Mrs. Alfred Chase and three of her children. The daughter, Cora, is at the left of her little brothers Nathan and Claude, wearing a fashionable cloth dress and dark shawl. Her expression is unsmiling and she is about fifteen years old. The smallest boy is in a white children's gown sitting upright on a plaid blanket in a chair against which the older boy leans. This child wears a fancy collar on his light shirt and an unhappy look on his tiny face. Mrs. Chase (in some resources she is named Dancing Bull, in others, Roberta High Elk) is in a traditional Hidatsa dress of dark wool with a cape and yoke of rows of dentalium, her hair is braided and she holds her son's hand.
Red ID: PH_I_140420 Image ID: 101673 Image Notes: 00086-00548

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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