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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0031
Item: 00062
Title: Chippewa woman demonstrates a process with a bowl and tool
Date: 1913
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-61, "Woman making wooden bowl", and "Densmore-ND-1913-Turtle Mountain Chippewa".
Summary: A Chippewa woman sits on a piece of hide in a grassy area near an encampment of people. She wears a printed cotton dress with long loose sleeves. She displays a shallow bowl, and demonstrates how it was fashioned with a small adze. By the base of the low hills behind her, people, horses, and canvas tents are visible. Notes say the bowl is wood and used as a snow scoop in winter. More likely the bowl is one used in a Chippewa game in which small carved figures are tossed in such a bowl. The Hidatsa have a similar game known as the Plum-stone game. The image was taken to document the research into aspects of the cultures of the various Indian tribes by noted musicologist Frances Densmore. Research was conducted in 1912, 1915, and 1918 by Ms. Densmore. __Two different images are printed on one sheet.
Red ID: PH_I_145431 Image ID: 106470 Image Notes: 00086-00062

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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