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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00041
Title: A small boy plays with a carved wooden instrument of the Notched Stick Society, on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Date: 1911
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-41, and postcard marks.
Summary: A small Hidatsa boy in light-weight knickers and high dark stockings plays with a wooden carved ceremonial instrument taller than he is. The top of the instrument has been carved with an animal head, and the neck painted in stripes. The pointed end is resting in the grass and the boy runs a shaped wooden sick up and down the carved wooed frets that run along the middle of the instrument. Behind the boy and the instrument is a rambling log structure. Likely taken by one of several ethnographers and musicologists who studied the Hidatsa culture in the early decades of the 1900s. The object is the property of the Notched Stick Society of the Hidatsa. It is described in the work of Robert H. Lowie, published in 1912, Anthropological Papers American Museum of Natural History.
Red ID: PH_I_145408 Image ID: 106447 Image Notes: 00086-00041

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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