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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0010
Item: 00505
Title: Yellow Corn stands in a tipi camp with her relatives, a horse and a bicycle, somewhere on the Fort Berthold Reservation
Date: Circa 1910
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-505, 3 in a penciled circle, and the biographical context for Yellow Corn noted in the summary.
Summary: In a wide prairie field a tipi camp is set up and meat is drying on a traditional Hidatsa scaffold. A man holds a pipe as he sits on a barrel near the rest of his family. A shawl-wrapped woman is near a small boy, who is blurred by his movements. The last figure is a distinguished older woman identified as Yellow Corn. She also is blanket wrapped. Behind this camp is a light horse with ribs showing, and a bicycle. Taken around 1910 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. __Notes indicate Yellow Corn to be the grandmother of Maggie Old Dog Grinnell. Additional notes link her as grandmother to "Bill, John, Dora, and Mrs. Jonathan (Jon) Hunts Along. Old Dog was born in 1850 and died in 1928. This is a family from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Mostly Hidatsa.
Red ID: PH_I_145830 Image ID: 106988 Image Notes: 00086-00505

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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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0010
Item: 00505
Title: Yellow Corn stands in a tipi camp with her relatives, a horse and a bicycle, somewhere on the Fort Berthold Reservation
Date: Circa 1910
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-505, 3 in a penciled circle, and the biographical context for Yellow Corn noted in the summary.
Summary: In a wide prairie field a tipi camp is set up and meat is drying on a traditional Hidatsa scaffold. A man holds a pipe as he sits on a barrel near the rest of his family. A shawl-wrapped woman is near a small boy, who is blurred by his movements. The last figure is a distinguished older woman identified as Yellow Corn. She also is blanket wrapped. Behind this camp is a light horse with ribs showing, and a bicycle. Taken around 1910 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. __Notes indicate Yellow Corn to be the grandmother of Maggie Old Dog Grinnell. Additional notes link her as grandmother to "Bill, John, Dora, and Mrs. Jonathan (Jon) Hunts Along. Old Dog was born in 1850 and died in 1928. This is a family from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Mostly Hidatsa.
Red ID: PH_I_145830 Image ID: 101454 Image Notes: 00086-00505-back

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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