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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0013
Item: 00665
Title: Two young girls, one in traditional regalia, stand solemnly by a tent
Date: Circa 1910
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-665, and postcard marks.
Summary: Printed as a postcard image, the scene presents two young girls standing together by an open tent on the Fort Berthold Indian reservation. One girl, braids pulled back with a ribbon, solemnly wears traditional regalia consisting of a wool dress with the shoulder or cape of the bodice decorated with elk teeth, the hem and ends of sleeves finished with contrasting fabric, beaded moccasins and leggings, a bead breastplate, belt, and a shawl folded over one arm. The other girl is dressed up as well, but in a cloth dress with tucks on the bodice, and a belted waist, worn over cloth leggings and high-topped boots. A shawl is folded over her arm as well. Likely taken around 1910 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation during a period of intense study of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara cultures.
Red ID: PH_I_145891 Image ID: 107050 Image Notes: 00086-00665

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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