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| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Beach fishing camp showing several people around a fire drying fish with a tent in the background. Captioned: Ottawa Fishing Camp -- On the Island at Fran... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| 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,... |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Map of Virginia Coast based on observations by Captain John Smith. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Norb Bybee shoots a self-portrait with his camera of petroglyphs that are carved in the face of a rock shelter near Gullikson's Glen. |
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| Description: | Thunderbird petroglyphs carved on rock face at Twin Bluffs. |
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| Description: | View from field of a Ho-Chunk encampment in a field surrounded by trees, probably a powwow and/or medicine dance site. |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Native American picture rocks, also known as petroglyphs. Caption reads: "Indian Picture Rocks No. 1. Smith's Ferry, PA." |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Native American picture rocks, also known as petroglyphs. Caption reads: "Indian Picture Rocks No. 2. Smith's Ferry, PA." |
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| Description: | An elevated view of Native American picture rocks, also known as petroglyphs. Caption reads: "Indian Picture Rocks No. 3. Smith's Ferry, PA." |
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| Description: | A view of Native American petroglyph rock carvings near Tucson. |
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| Description: | Native American petroglyph rock carvings near Tucson. |
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| Description: | Native American petroglyph rock carving near Tucson. |
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| Description: | A view of Native American petroglyph rock engravings near Tucson. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| 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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