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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0016
Item: 00835
Title: Man with four boys on the porch of their Fort Berthold house
Date: 1917
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the front: IX-73-1917 Pape, which corresponds to numbering of Minnesota Historical Society Wilson photos. On the back: col. 86-835.
Summary: A wintry scene shows an unidentified man standing with four boys on the porch of a gable-roofed, wood-frame house on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. A story and a half house, it is clapboard sided, and has been grafted onto an earlier gable roof single-story building. An "L" is formed by the joining of the two sections of the house, and thus creating a shed-roof porch along the two intersecting walls. The people are dressed in dark outer coats, most with a hat of some type. They have posed side by side with the tallest at the house corner and stair-stepping in height to the youngest boy at the porch edge. A happy looking set of young people. Snow is caught on the roof, and is piled around the edges of the house. Taken in 1917 during the Gilbert L. Wilson ethnographic study of the Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Reservation, and marked with the number associated with his collection housed in the Minnesota Historical Society.
Red ID: PH_I_145937 Image ID: 107097 Image Notes: 00086-00835

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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