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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0009
Item: 00445
Title: Postcard titled "Fair New Yorker eating dog with the Sioux"
Date: 7/9/1908
Creator: Matteso Post Cards (St. Paul, Minn.)
Inscription/Marks: On the front is the title noted above. On the back is a stamp, and a message reading: From this to town (and something to eat) has made us duly hilarious. We are always your loving Boits. I went up White Mountain on the Reservation July 3-a two days climb on bronchos. Hows your head?"
Summary: A postcard sent to Fredrick Wilson at 2635 Polk St. N.E. in Minneapolis, MN, shows a curly-haired blond woman seated in a field between two American Indian men who are dressed in regalia. Other people are seated and standing in the background, and men on horseback are in the middle distance with a tent and tipi camp in the distance. The young woman holds food in one hand and a catlinite pipe in the other. The message mentions White Mountain and a reservation near El Paso Texas. Wilson aided his brother, Gilbert, in ethnologic research on the Hidatsa culture on the Fort Berthold Reservation between 1906 and 1919. Return address is 1110 N. El Paso St, El Paso TX.
Red ID: PH_I_144051 Image ID: 95597 Image Notes: 00086-00445

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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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0009
Item: 00445
Title: Postcard titled "Fair New Yorker eating dog with the Sioux"
Date: 7/9/1908
Creator: Matteso Post Cards (St. Paul, Minn.)
Inscription/Marks: On the front is the title noted above. On the back is a stamp, and a message reading: From this to town (and something to eat) has made us duly hilarious. We are always your loving Boits. I went up White Mountain on the Reservation July 3-a two days climb on bronchos. Hows your head?"
Summary: A postcard sent to Fredrick Wilson at 2635 Polk St. N.E. in Minneapolis, MN, shows a curly-haired blond woman seated in a field between two American Indian men who are dressed in regalia. Other people are seated and standing in the background, and men on horseback are in the middle distance with a tent and tipi camp in the distance. The young woman holds food in one hand and a catlinite pipe in the other. The message mentions White Mountain and a reservation near El Paso Texas. Wilson aided his brother, Gilbert, in ethnologic research on the Hidatsa culture on the Fort Berthold Reservation between 1906 and 1919. Return address is 1110 N. El Paso St, El Paso TX.
Red ID: PH_I_144051 Image ID: 90186 Image Notes: 00086-00445-back

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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