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Chippewas Gathering Wild Rice

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Description: Illustration of three Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians gathering wild rice into a canoe.
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Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Ricing Camp

Date: 1912
Description: Vilas County, Ricing camp, Rice Creek. Lac Du Flambeau area.
Photograph

Harvesting Rice

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Description: View of a field of rice being harvested. A team of horses are pulling agricultural equipment, and several houses/outbuildings are in the distance. Caption ...
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Rice Shocking

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in a rice field, where they have been shocking the rice. A woman sits in a horse-drawn carriage, and in front of her, a you...
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Workers Harvesting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ...
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Workers Planting in Rice Field

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h...
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Workers Separating Rice from Stalks

Date: 1910
Description: Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa...

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