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Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0034
Item: 01174
Title: Dr. Charles L. Hall and Frances Densmore making camp near Crows Heart's place
Date: 1915
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-1174, and this note "Dr. C. L. Hall and Miss Frances Densmore making camp near Crow Heart's place, where she and Dora stayed 2 weeks or more-she to study Indian music & Dora to keep her company for Smithsonian Institute".
Summary: Dr. Charles L. Hall, missionary on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and musicologist Frances Densmore are at work setting up a campsite tent on the property of Crow's Heart. In the background the Missouri River is visible. Dr. Hall is using the back, blunt end of an axe to pound a stake into the ground. Canvas duffels, wooden crates, and assorted research materials in containers are by the roll of canvas that is the tent itself. Both Hall and Densmore wear hats and crisp long-sleeved shirts, with ties. Densmore wears a long skirt of serviceable material. Taken in 1915, during one of Densmore research visits to the reservation to study Indian Music on behalf of the Smithsonian Institute.
Red ID: PH_I_146168 Image ID: 101504 Image Notes: 00086-01174-back

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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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0034
Item: 01174
Title: Dr. Charles L. Hall and Frances Densmore making camp near Crows Heart's place
Date: 1915
Inscription/Marks: On the back: col. 86-1174, and this note "Dr. C. L. Hall and Miss Frances Densmore making camp near Crow Heart's place, where she and Dora stayed 2 weeks or more-she to study Indian music & Dora to keep her company for Smithsonian Institute".
Summary: Dr. Charles L. Hall, missionary on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and musicologist Frances Densmore are at work setting up a campsite tent on the property of Crow's Heart. In the background the Missouri River is visible. Dr. Hall is using the back, blunt end of an axe to pound a stake into the ground. Canvas duffels, wooden crates, and assorted research materials in containers are by the roll of canvas that is the tent itself. Both Hall and Densmore wear hats and crisp long-sleeved shirts, with ties. Densmore wears a long skirt of serviceable material. Taken in 1915, during one of Densmore research visits to the reservation to study Indian Music on behalf of the Smithsonian Institute.
Red ID: PH_I_146168 Image ID: 179182 Image Notes: 00086-01174

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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