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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00047
Title: Young Helen, Wolf Chief's daughter with a rake at their homesite on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Date: Circa 1915
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the front: "Ewald", and the penciled note "Helen Wolf Chief died in youth". On the back: col. 86-47, the information noted in the summary, and the message "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. (signed) Gilbert L. Wilson".
Summary: A young Hidatsa girl of around eight years old holds a rake in her hands beside a log cabin and a frame house on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. She is identified as Helen, daughter of Wolf Chief. The youngster died while still young. The postcard on which the image is used is addressed to the girl at her Elbowoods location, by ethnographer Gilbert L. Wilson. The photograph is one he took of her during his research days on the reservation, between 1906 and 1919. Helen wears a light cotton frock and ankle high shoes. Her hair is in braids.
Red ID: PH_I_145414 Image ID: 106453 Image Notes: 00086-00047

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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