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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00036
Title: Gilbert Wilson looks at a Hidatsa burden basket on the Fort Berthold Reservation
Date: 1912
Creator: Wilson, Frederick N
Inscription/Marks: On the front: "41" is inked over "43", creating 41-1912. On the back: col. 86-36.
Summary: Standing in the yard of a sod and log gable-roofed cabin by a scatter of cut log posts, ethnographer Gilbert Livingstone Wilson holds a Hidatsa burden basket. The basket is not yet finished, but the geometrical design is nearly complete. Wilson wears puttees over his lower pant legs, and has glasses and a dark tie. He and his brother Frederick recorded the lives of three Hidatsa family members of the Waterbuster clan. Buffalo Bird Woman, her brother Henry Wolf Chief, and her son Edward Goodbird were all subjects who contributed to the success of his research into the Hidatsa people. Wilson’s extensive and detailed writings remain an important source of information for historians and anthropologists, an especially the Hidatsa people. A Presbyterian minister and ethnographer, Wilson taught for years at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. The image here is numbered "43-1912", which corresponds with numbered items in his collection at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Red ID: PH_I_145403 Image ID: 106442 Image Notes: 00086-00036

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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