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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00028
Title: Irregular shaped image of a Hidatsa Lone Man pipe owned by Mercy Walker, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Date: Circa 1920
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-28, "Lone Man pipe owned by Mercy Walker-1976-(Ewald)
Summary: A detail area of a larger photograph focuses on a wooden Hidatsa pipe. Reproduced on a postcard, the irregularly shaped image shows a pipe being held by a woman's hand. The pipe is identified as a Lone Man pipe belonging to Mercy Walker of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The pipe is a medicine pipe made of wood, likely hickory, and is about 18-20 inches long. The mouth-end is about an inch in diameter, and four inches from the mouth a shoulder encircles the stem. This shoulder extends around a half an inch from the stem, and is not a very thick ring. The stem widens gradually after this feature until near the middle of the pipe. The stem is wound with about a inch and a half band of twine at the middle of the stem. The stem then begins to narrow until the twine bands which are placed at the elbow of the pipe. The bowl of the pipe flares in a platform around the opening. The platform is nearly round. It is not normally the type of ceremonial pipe in which tobacco was actually smoked. Notes on the message side of the postcard indicate this image to be in the Paul Ewald collection by 1976, though it was a much older photograph.
Red ID: PH_I_145395 Image ID: 106434 Image Notes: 00086-00028

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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