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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0012
Item: 00647
Title: Men sitting in front of tent in a grove of trees
Date: Circa 1920
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-647.
Summary: Two men sit in front of the open end of a canvas tent that has been pitched in a grove of slender trees. Towels are airing on a line beside the tent. They are not identified, but they appear to be in conversation. Seated on the ground is a man in a cap and cloth jacket. Utensils hang from a pole between the two men. The man seated on a stool is heavier and possibly older than his companion, and he wears shirtsleeves, suspenders, and rumpled work pants. Likely of researchers documenting the culture of the Hidatsa and Mandan people of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in around 1920.
Red ID: PH_I_145873 Image ID: 107032 Image Notes: 00086-00647

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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