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Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Photograph

Cigarette Sales

Date: 06 1981
Description: Winnebago Enterprises trailer, advertising drive-up cigarette sales.
Photograph

Bennett Studio Interior

Date: 05 1912
Description: Interior of H.H. Bennett's studio gift shop with Indian souvenirs.
Photograph

Surrender of Black Hawk

Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832.
Photograph

Killing of Registre Gagnier

Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w...
Postcard

Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Susie Redhorn "HiNukIGa" (Woman), daughter of Frank Redhorn and Lucy Prettyman, shown in later years posing by two baskets. The photograph was taken at the...
Print

Indian Sugar Makers

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Description: Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers.
Drawing

Indian Infant on Cradleboard

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Description: Illustration of an Indian baby on a cradleboard propped up between two Indian women.
Print

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti...
Photograph

First Thanksgiving

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Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
Photograph

Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
Photograph

Chippewa Lodging Framework

Date: 1929
Description: Framework for a Chippewa (Ojibwa) wigwam (left) and long medicine lodge at Lac du Flambeau. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepare...
Photograph

Covered Wigwam

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Description: A wigwam covered with store canvas. This cyanotype image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first curator of photogr...
Photograph

Chippewa Cabin at Clear Lake

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Description: A cabin at Clear Lake (Vilas County), a small Chippewa (Ojibwa) settlement, occupied by a white man and his Native American wife. This image is part of an ...
Photograph

Chippewa Medicine Man and His Family

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Description: Chippewa (Ojibwa) medicine man John King, with his wife, grandchild, and family standing near a birch wigwam on the Lake Court Oreilles reservation. John K...
Photograph

Native Americans and Whites

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Description: An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat...
Photograph

Native American Mother

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Description: A Chippewa mother with two children at Minocqua, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first ...
Photograph

Chippewa Family

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Description: A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul...
Photograph

Chippewa Man

Date: 1913
Description: A studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian from the Bad River Indian Reservation at Odanah. The man is we...
Photograph

John Nuwi

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Description: Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun...

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