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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0022
Item: 01167
Title: Edward S. Curtis's camp on Beaver Creek on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
Date: 1907
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the front: "A-11". On the back: col. 86-1167, and "At Curtis Camp mouth of Beaver Creek, Ft. Berthold Res."
Summary: Three men stand in a field by canvas tents and a team of horses still hitched to a wagon with a canvas cover. In the distance are a number of tipis and tents scattered across the prairie near the Fort Berthold Reservation stream, Beaver Creek. It is likely that one of the men is actually the photographer Edward S. Curtis, who was in the area in 1907 amassing the images he would use in volumes 4 and 5 of his famous series documenting the North American Indian tribes. This picture is part of the Gilbert Livingston and Fredrick Wilson ethnographic work underway at the time between 1906 and 1919. Of note is the relationship that developed professionally between Curtis and Fredrick N. Wilson, a trained artist. In 1915, Wilson provided the illustrations for Curtis's book "Indian Days of Long Ago".
Red ID: PH_I_146161 Image ID: 107321 Image Notes: 00086-01167

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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