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Ho-Chunk Person Walking Across Snow

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Description: Winter scene with an unidentified person, probably Native American, wrapped in a blanket walking across the snow. In the background the wigwam poles (ciisu...
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Four Ho-Chunk People on Bridge

Date: 1911
Description: Four Ho-Chunk people crossing a bridge spanning the Black River. This photograph was taken before the flood of October 1911, when the bridge was completely...
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Indian Agency House

Date: 1936
Description: A view of the Indian Agency house after restoration. A person is standing on the porch.
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Sam Blowsnake

Date: 1956
Description: Sam Blowsnake prepares to shoot an arrow with his bow as a crowd of people watches behind him.
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Ho-Chunk Individuals and Dog Near Ciiporoke

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Description: Three unidentified Ho-Chunk people and a dog are sitting outside of their canvas-covered ciiporoke. A summer house can be seen through the trees.
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Ho-Chunk and European American Group Cranberry Harvesting

Date: 1900
Description: A large group of Ho-Chunks and white people harvesting cranberries. The wooden boxes lying in the field were filled with the fruit and then shipped by rail...
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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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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Men and a Woman

Date: 1904
Description: Studio portrait of group of people posing in front of a painted backdrop. A Ho-Chunk man on the left is wearing a suit and overcoat, and a Ho-Chunk woman o...
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Pipe Dyer's Indian Village

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Description: View across grass towards a group of Ho-Chunk people sitting together at their summertime village, which was managed by Roland "Pipe" Dyer. There are trees...
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Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Men and One Woman

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of group of people posing in front of a painted backdrop. A Ho-Chunk man is sitting on the left wearing a suit, necktie, and hat, and is ho...
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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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Ho-Chunk Women and Children

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Description: Group of people under and near a tent. One Ho-Chunk woman is sitting outside a canvas awning holding an infant, with a Ho-Chunk girl standing behind her. A...
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Ho-Chunk Cattail Mat Lodge and Tepees

Date: 1908
Description: A Ho-Chunk cattail mat lodge and tepees in an area partitioned off by canvas barriers. There is a person sitting on the ground on the left, and a medicine ...
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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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Ho-Chunk Cranberry Gathering

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Description: View from distance of two groups of people in a open field surrounded by trees. On the right are what appears to be European Americans, with four buggies p...
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Ho Chunk Powwow

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Description: View across field towards a group of people gathered in a clearing. There is a shelter in the background, and tents are in the far background.
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Studio portrait of group of people posing in front of a painted backdrop. A Ho-Chunk woman, identified as the wife of George Greengrass, sits in front of t...
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Captain Whitewood (Mah-na-pay-honch-nee-kaw) and Mr. Tucker, Winnebago

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Description: Seated portrait of Captain Whitewood (Mah-na-pay-honch-nee-kaw) and Mr. Tucker, both of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe. Whitewood was a member of the Bear...
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Studio Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1905
Description: Mabel Blackhawk St. Cyr, left, and Louisa Lowcloud Thunderchief Redbird (WaQuaWaZinWinKah).
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Percy Greendeer

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Description: Full-length portrait of Percy Greendeer of the Ho-Chunk Nation. He is wearing traditional Ho-Chunk attire.

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