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Indian Village
circa 1960-1969
Ojibwa man tanning a hide outdoors. Text on reverse reads: "Here at Historyland you can see the Chippewa Indians in their colorful native dress and natural settings of the way they lived, worked a...
Menomonee Indians
1972
Text on back reads: "Menominee Indians . . . Indian family chief, mother, daughter, at Wolf River Falls, Neopit, Wis."
Qua-bas-er-o-qua
1908
Photographic postcard of Qua-bas-er-o-qua, an Ojibwa (Chippewa) woman. She is seated on the ground in a low woven chair, and is wearing traditional clothing. Her feet are resting on a rifle. In the...
Ellen Gokey
1910
Studio portrait of a man who is a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles band of the Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe). He is wearing a feathered headdress, a beaded vest/gibide'ebizon, and a bandolier ba...
Chippewa Medicine Man and His Family
Chippewa (Ojibwa) medicine man John King, with his wife, grandchild, and family standing near a birch wigwam on the Lake Court Oreilles reservation. John King resided in a nearby log cabin and the ...
"Chippeway (Ojibwa) Squaws"
1826
Portrait of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) women with their babies, originally titled "Chippeway Squaws." Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Fond du Lac (1826).