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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0019
Item: 00992
Title: A cache-pit opening beside a collapsed earth lodge
Date: 1906-1919
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-992.
Summary: A hole in the ground surrounded by downed timbers is all that remains of a traditional cache-pit located close by the entry passage of an old earth lodge. The collapsing structure of the lodge is an indicator of the disuse of this traditional dwelling. In 1908 only 7 lodges were still standing on the Reservation. It is of note that this image is related to a post-posthumously published work detailing the methods used in earth lodge construction by the ethnologist Gilbert L. Wilson. His research took place between 1906 and 1919 among the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The earth lodge publication in the American Museum bulletins was published in 1934, four years after Wilson's death.
Red ID: PH_I_146055 Image ID: 107215 Image Notes: 00086-00992

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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