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Unidentified Man Dancing

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Description: An unidentified man dancing for a group of onlookers in Black River Falls during the 1908 Homecoming Celebration. He is wearing a Sioux-style eagle feather...
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four Ho-Chunk kneel in a square. A flute player and a man with a rattle stand behind on a low, round stone wall...
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Eagle Dance

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Description: Ho-Chunk Eagle Dance. Two dancers crouch in front of two men with drums. Ho-Chunk men and women sit on a bench at right. Tepee in back.
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Flute Ceremony

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Description: Ho-Chunk flute ceremony or prayer for rain. Four men kneel in a square next to poles bearing feather headdresses. A flute player and a man with a rattle st...
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Mary (Stacy) Yellowthunder, (Cowboy Woman) weaving a basket while seated on a blanket. A dwelling and trees can be seen in the background. She is the daugh...
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Chief Monegar

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Description: Chief George Monegar of the Winnebago holding an United States flag.
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Red Cloud Park

Date: 1978
Description: Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl...
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Crowd in Country

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Description: Crowd in country, including Native American women, with tents.
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Copy Photograph of Harold Jones Funmaker and Others

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Description: Copy photograph of two Ho-Chunk men posing kneeling, and a third boy standing, but etched out of the negative. They are all wearing full regalia. The man o...
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Ho-Chunk Men in Regalia

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Description: Copy photograph of image of Ho-Chunk men, two posing kneeling, with two people standing behind them on the left. One of the men standing has his left arm r...
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Studio Portrait of Henry Thunder

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Description: Elderly Ho-Chunk man, Henry Thunder, posing making a gesture with his hand inside a tent with light rays.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk woman, standing outdoors in front of a tent, wearing a Sioux headdress and a Chippewa bandoleer.
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Copy Photograph of Jim Swallow and William Massey

Date: 1908
Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk man, Jim Swallow, in regalia posing standing and holding a bow in front of cloth barriers or tents. From a powwow group from ...
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Copy Photograph of Three Young Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Copy photograph of three young Ho-Chunk women wearing several necklaces posing sitting on the ground outdoors in front of a white tent in a field.
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Medicine Dance Lodge

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Description: A Medicine Dance Lodge at Morrison Creek. There is a long tent in a field with a large group of people and children sitting and standing underneath it. The...
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Copy Photograph of a Ho-Chunk and European American Group

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Description: Copy photograph of a large group of people, including several European American men posing sitting, and several Ho-Chunk men and women posing standing behi...
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Outdoor Portrait of Frank Browneagle and Wife

Date: 1906
Description: Frank Browneagle (HeWaKaKayReKah) and his wife, Annie Snake (KhaWinKeeSinchHayWinKah) stand in front of their two homes. The domed wigwam (ciiporoke) on th...
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Portrait of George Monegar on a Mule

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man on the right is sitting on a mule wearing a Sioux headdress along with other regalia, in a field in front of tents and trees. A European Ame...
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Portrait of George Standingwater

Date: 1906
Description: A Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in a field, holding an object in his left hand, and is wearing regalia including a long bandoleer which appear to have be...
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Ho-Chunk Group near Tents in a Field

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Description: Three Ho-Chunk men and three Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of tents in a field. The women are wrapped in plaid fringed shawls, and the men are we...

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