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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | This image was copied by artist Seth Eastman in 1849 and printed in Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's The History of the Indian Tribes of the United States, Hist... |
| 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: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Horse racing of Sioux Indians near Fort Pierre. Three Sioux Indians on horseback in foreground and Fort Pierre in distance. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Interior of the hut of a Mandan chief showing various objects and animals with five Mandans seated on ground. |
| 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: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictographs on Lake Superior and Carp River, Mich. Six rows of animals, canoes, birds, human figures, and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Indian dance, with some wearing bear masks (Plate 18). "Next in importance to the buffalo hunts, and not less exciting and spirited in its character, is ... |
| 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: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Sioux give away horses at the Rosebud Agency. A large group of people are watching from a shelter on the left covered with branches. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | An illustration of an Indian prophet standing by his lodge, which has symbols drawn on and floating above it. Others are seated, watching him. Two persons ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Meda Songs pictographs. Four rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Webeno Songs pictographs. Four rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Pictorial record of a Chief's Success in Hunting and War displayed in pictographs. Two rows of symbols including animals, human figures and plants. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 1-70, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc... |
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