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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Transparencies of Native Americans in Wisconsin compiled by J.F. Wojta, circa 1930
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Native American woman is sitting on the ground preparing corn for drying. A man, with arms akimbo, is standing nearby, observing. Husked corn is piled on... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Large pieces of stone are scattered on the gound near the smooth wall of a shallow quarry. Vegetation is growing on the surface above the wall and among th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Native American point shows the characteristic contours produced by flint knapping. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Ears of corn with their husks braided together for drying are arranged over farming tools, including a sharpened stick, rake, hoe and a cultivator made fro... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A Native American trapper sits on his haunches in front of a building where various hides on stretchers have been hung to dry. The building is sided with s... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified Native American men, probably Ho-Chunk, posing for a seated, full-length studio portrait. Each is seated on a blanket and is shirtless. Th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across water towards an Ojibwe couple paddling a birch bark canoe with their five children seated in the center. The family is dressed in western styl... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a sign identifying the Spirit Rock, which is a large boulder surrounded by sturdy protective posts. There are tree stumps in the foreground and a w... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified Ho-Chunk women posing outdoors behind a pile of baskets made from split black ash. There is a tarpaper covered dwelling behind them with a... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two pottery vessels are displayed on a cloth covered stand. The pots are in the Woodland Indian style, with vertical striation decoration. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man standing in a wooded area. A light snowfall has highlighted linear ridges in the soil which indicate the location of Stockbridge Indian... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Five ears of Indian, or flint, corn (Zea mays indurata) illustrate the variation in size and coloration. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Raised linear garden beds have been delineated with hydrated lime to show the arrangement of the intersecting beds. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A map of the site of a Native American village with a complex of linear raised garden beds and cache pits near Leeman. Also shown are a farmstead, road, an... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A composite lantern slide with two early views, ca. 1910, of raised corn hills on the campus of Carroll College (now Carroll University). At top is a view... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An unidentified Native American man is standing with his hand on a makeshift work table holding shelled corn spread over a piece of cloth. The table is mad... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Native American man and woman, identified only as Potawatomie [sic] Indians, posing in front of a log structure. The woman is wearing large earrings and ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A group of Native Americans, working in a long row, harvesting cranberries. They appear to be women and children. Dwellings are in the background on the le... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing a hat and double breasted overcoat is holding a binocular case in his left hand and posing beside maple trees that have multipl... |
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