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Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
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Politician with Menominee Indians

Date: 1959
Description: Wisconsin State Senator Alfred A. Laun (R.) of Kiel, participating in what appears to be a square dance with Menominee Indians and others. This image is pa...
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Studio Portrait of Nellie Eagle Swallow

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Nellie Eagle Swallow, posing standing and wearing very long Winnebago earrings, a beaded headband with two eagle feath...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man William Hindsley

Date: 1880
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, William Hindsley (Hensley) (CooNooChoNeeNikKah). He is holding a pipe tomahawk and is wearing bandolie...
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Studio Portrait of Young Ho-Chunk Woman in Regalia

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Henukaw Davis, Rogue. She is wearing several necklaces, earrings, rings, streamer, moccasins. A ribbon work skirt with a pla...
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Young Ho-Chunk Woman in Regalia

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Description: Studio portrait of Nora Arthur, Greengrass, sitting and wearing regalia, including a traditional blouse, hair braids, and a beaded headband with an eagle f...
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Copy Photograph of David Little Soldier

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Description: Copy photograph of a waist-up studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man with long hair posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a shawl ...
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Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. They are both wearing several necklaces, earrings, and ribbons i...
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Portrait of Ethel Windblowe, Sarah Windblow, and Elizabeth Thunder Cloud

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the left, and two women posing standing in the center and on the right. They are in front of a painte...
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Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Studio portrait, taken in front of a painted backdrop, of two Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing slightly raised a...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Youth

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Description: Studio portrait, in front of a painted backdrop, of a young Ho-Chunk man posing sitting wearing a suit coat and hat between two young Ho-Chunk women posing...
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Portrait of Minnie Sherman

Date: 1905
Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk woman, Minnie Sherman Prettyman-Bear Whitebear (AhHooSootchPaWinKah), posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. Sh...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. There are chairs and a blanket around her. She is wearing several neckla...
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Studio Portrait of a Small Ho-Chunk Girl in Hiiwapox Blouse

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a small Ho-Chunk girl posing standing on a chair. She is wearing a traditional blouse covered completely ...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group in Regalia

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Description: Copy print portrait of six Ho-Chunk men, two women, and a girl all dressed in regalia including bandoleers, jewelry, facial paint, and feathers in their ha...
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Seminole Native American Woman

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Description: Waist-up portrait of a Seminole Native American woman wearing a native outfit featuring many necklaces around her neck, and with her hair in a bun. Caption...
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Northwestern Lithographing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, with a sidebar image of an American Indian woman with brai...
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Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Waist-up pen and ink drawing of Chief Oshkosh. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. He wears a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded neckpouch and a blanket w...

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