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Ball-Play Dance

Date: 1844
Description: Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22).

"As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which th...

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Ball Play

Date: 1844
Description: Large group of Indians engaged in the game of lacrosse (Plate 23).

"Having in the two former illustrations and their chapters, explained to the readers t...

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Archery of the Mandans

Date: 1844
Description: Mandan Indians engaged in archery competition (Plate 24).

"The meeting represented here is something like that of an Archery Club in the civilized world,...

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Fond du Lac Company House

Date: 1837
Description: Fond du Lac Company House, built in 1836 and operated as an inn by Colwert Pier and his wife. Groups of Indians are in the yard outside the inn, and severa...
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The Scalp Dance

Date: 1844
Description: "The Scalp Dance is given as a celebration of a victory; and amongst this tribe, as I learned whilst residing with them, danced in the night, by the light ...

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