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Winnebago Men Playing Cards

Date: 1885
Description: Five Winnebago men are sitting on the ground around a blanket playing cards. Two young boys are standing behind them watching.
Painting

Indian Spearing Beaver

Date: 1821
Description: Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Men Playing Wah-koo-chad-ah

Date: 
Description: Six Ho-Chunk men are standing and kneeling around a blanket playing Wah-koo-chad-ah (Moccasin), a favorite game. A typical dwelling (chipoteke) is in the b...
Print

Horse Racing of Sioux Indians near Fort Pierre

Date: 1832
Description: Horse racing of Sioux Indians near Fort Pierre. Three Sioux Indians on horseback in foreground and Fort Pierre in distance.
Print

Encampment of the Piekann Indians

Date: 1832
Description: Encampment of the Piekann Indians.
Book or Pamphlet

Ball Play on the Prairie

Date: 1884
Description: Native Americans playing a lacrosse-like game of ball.
Print

Indian Lacrosse Players

Date: 1844
Description: Indians with ball-playing equipment, believed to be used in the game of Lacrosse. (Plate 21)

"In devoting a few of the last pages of this work to some o...

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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...

Print

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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Killing Alligators

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Print

How Indians Treat Their Sick

Date: 1655
Description: Engraving made after a painting by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues (died 1588) while on the Laudonnière Expedition in Florida, ca. 1564.
Photograph

Dr. War Eagle

Date: 1898
Description: Dr. War Eagle shoots at a target using a bow and arrow at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
Painting

Lacrosse Game

Date: 10 07 1934
Description: James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game.
Photograph

Indian Gambling Game

Date: 
Description: A group of Native Americans sitting in a circle outside of two structures while playing a gambling game. Caption reads: "Indian Gambling Game."
Photograph

Lacrosse Team

Date: 1930
Description: Outdoor group portrait of a Native American lacrosse team posing holding their sticks before a match. A man holding a drum is standing on the far left. Two...

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