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Collection Summary
Collection: 00086 - Paul Ewald Photograph Collection
Folder: 0011
Item: 00558
Title: Packs Wolf with his wife Nora Smith and another woman in full regalia at a Fort Berthold Indian Reservation celebration
Date: 1907
Creator: Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone,--1868-1930
Inscription/Marks: On the front: I-97, which corresponds to numbering of Minnesota Historical Society Wilson photos, and the direction "over" in pencil. On the back: col. 86-558, and the identifiv=cations noted in the summary, plus a note that Nora Smith was the aunt of Margaret Bird Bear, and the Ewald stamp.
Summary: Packs Wolf stands in a field with two women beside him and a row of tipis behind them. The three are in regalia befitting a celebration that is taking place on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The women, one of whom is Nora Smith, Packs Wolf's wife, wear wool blanket shawls, striped skirts and hair pipe breast plates. The bodices of their dresses are decorated with cowrie shells and they carry elaborately carved wooden fans that resemble the heads of sunflowers. Packs Wolf holds two feather headdresses in his hands, and he wears an ermine and eagle feather straight-up headdress and quillwork decorated tunic and leggings. Taken in 1907, during the Gilbert L. Wilson study of the Hidatsa on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and marked with the number associated with his collection at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Red ID: PH_I_22222 Image ID: 179151 Image Notes: 00086-00558

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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