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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01153
Title: A family of four outside a rough tipi in a hunting camp
Date: Circa 1905
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-1153.
Summary: On a high place above a river valley, a small hunting camp with a tipi has been set up to serve the four people pictured. A woman in profile carries a shawl-wrapped child on her back, while a young lad in a vest and neckerchief stands by the reclining figure of his father. Food and water containers hang from the scaffold near the tipi. Although unidentified, it is likely that this is the family of Black Hawk and his wife Different Cherries. Black Hawk was born in 1848 at like a Fish Hook Village to Chicken Can’t Swim and Brown Husk. Black Hawk and his families were a part of the Xosh-gah Band of the Hidatsa. In 1894 he was forced by the US Government to divorce one of his wives, so he divorced Mink and married Different Cherries. In all he had 19 children. Black Hawk died in 1910, the image is likely from around 1905.
Red ID: PH_I_146146 Image ID: 107306 Image Notes: 00086-01153

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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