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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0007
Item: 00323
Title: Mr. Haupt examines strung squash hung on the Wolf Chief farm, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, ND
Date: 1916
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-323, and "6644".
Summary: A man, his face shaded by a checked cap, stands by a drying rack on which rings of squash have been arranged. The buildings of the Wolf Chief family home are in the distance. The frame is made in the traditional Hidatsa manner, with upright crotch poles bearing cross pieces on which the spears of squash are placed. The kneeling man is identified as Mr. Haupt, one of the researchers working with the Wilson brothers on the studies of the Hidatsa people on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation when this 1916 image was taken.
Red ID: PH_I_145694 Image ID: 106780 Image Notes: 00086-00323

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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