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Encampment of the Piekann Indians

Date: 1832
Description: Encampment of the Piekann Indians.
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The Elkhorn Pyramid, on the Upper Missouri

Date: 1832
Description: The Elkhorn Pyramid, on the Upper Missouri River. Passing Indians would add horns to the pyramid, and sometimes add red marks to the horns to indicate the ...
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Ball Play on the Prairie

Date: 1884
Description: Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball.
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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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Map of Virginia Coast

Date: 1655
Description: Map of Virginia Coast based on observations by Captain John Smith.
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Thunderbird Petroglyphs

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Description: Thunderbird petroglyphs carved on rock face at Twin Bluffs.
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Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert

Date: 1851
Description: Pictograph E., Plate 63, "Kaizheosh, and his Band from Lake Vieu Desert. Michigan and Wisconsin." A group of symbols including birds, animals, a fish and a...
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Human Figure Petroglyph

Date: 1958
Description: Carving in stone of a human fugure at Gullickson's Glen.
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Twin Bluffs Petroglyphs

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Description: Figures carved in stone at Twin Bluffs petroglyph site.
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Ceremonial Group Dance

Date: 1959
Description: Slightly elevated view of Ho Chunk performing at the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial at night. A group of men and women are dancing in a pattern, wearing Nati...

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