Fred W. Voget Papers, 1935-1996

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Voget, Fred W., 1913-1997
Title
Fred W. Voget Papers
Dates
1935-1996 (inclusive)
Quantity
13.0 linear feet
Collection Number
Mss 318 (collection)
Summary
This collection represents a large portion of the academic research and writing career of cultural anthropologist and American Indian ethnologist Fred W. Voget. Voget focused his research for many years on the Crow tribe, also called Apsaalooké, of Montana.
Repository
University of Montana, Mansfield Library, Archives and Special Collections
Archives and Special Collections
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library
University of Montana
32 Campus Dr. #9936
59812-9936
Missoula, MT
Telephone: 406-243-2053
library.archives@umontana.edu
Access Restrictions

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The University of Montana--Missoula.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Frederick William Voget, cultural anthropologist and American Indian ethnologist, was born in Salem, Oregon, on February 12, 1913. He was one of six children of Friedrich A. Voget, who emigrated from Germany to Oregon when he was 19, and Fay Isham, whose grandparents were Oregon pioneers. Voget was educated in Portland public schools, attended Reed College, and graduated from the University of Oregon. He attended graduate school at Yale University and received a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1947. Fred served in the 71st Division of the U.S. Infantry from 1942 to 1947 and was honorably discharged as a Master Sergeant. He married Mary Kay Mee in 1942 and they had three daughters, Antoinette, Colleen, and Jane. Mrs. Voget worked as Dr. Voget's research assistant throughout their many years together.

Dr. Voget's fieldwork and doctoral dissertation subjects were the Crow Indians of Montana. His dissertation, The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, was published in 1984 in the Civilization of the American Indians Series, University of Oklahoma Press, and is the first full-length authoritative treatment of the Crow Sun Dance. Holt Rinehart published A History of Ethnology, an earlier book, in 1975. Recent contributions to new books include the introduction to Old Man Coyote and the foreword to Yellowtail, Crow Indian Medicine Man. His most recent book, They Call Me Agnes, was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the best non-fiction book of 1995. They Call Me Agnes, the life story of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose, a Crow Indian woman, was written with the assistance of his wife, Mary Kay Mee.

Dr. Voget was the author of many articles, notable among them "The Osage Indians, Osage Research Report" (New York, London, 1974) and "Crow Sacred Numerology" published in the Plains Anthropologist in 1996. His articles are also published in the 1996 Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology sponsored by Yale University.

Fred Voget taught at McGill University in Montreal, the University of Arkansas, the University of Toronto, and Southern Illinois University. He was a visiting professor at Northwestern University and Portland State University. In 1966 he won a Canada Council Research Grant to work with the Six Nations tribes of Eastern Canada. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany in 1972 and returned there in 1979 as a visiting professor at the University of Munich. After his retirement as Professor Emeritus from Southern Illinois University, Fred returned to Portland where he continued to write and lecture. He was an adjunct professor at Portland State University and was a guest lecturer at the University of Oregon and Linfield College.

Since 1939 Dr. Voget devoted his life and his research to recording and preserving the culture and way of life of the Crow as it was and is. His contribution to the study of ethnology was intended to improve the lives of American Indians and to promote understanding and respect for the diversity of cultures in the world. He was an adopted member of the Crow Tribe and spent part of every summer with them in Montana. Fred W. Voget died on 8, 1997

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection represents a large portion of the academic research and writing career of Fred W. Voget from his undergraduate years in the 1930s to a few years before his death in 1997. While the bulk of his research was focused on the Crow Tribe, the collection also includes secondary source research on numerous other North American tribes and primary source research on the Iroquois, Shoshoni, and Blackfeet Indians. Research specific to the Crow Tribe includes bibliographies, annotated photocopies of papers, book chapters, and articles, interviews spanning half of century from 1939 to 1993, and photographs from 1939 to 1987

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and any other applicable statutes. Intellectual property rights transferred to the University of Montana.

Preferred Citation

[Name of document or photograph number], Fred W. Voget Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana--Missoula.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is divided into six series:

Series I: General Anthropology and Native American research, undated, 0.7 linear feet

Series II: Crow Indian research, 5.0 linear feet, 1936-1995

Series III: Field research notebooks, 1.0 linear feet, 1949-1993

Series IV: Crow language research, 1.0 linear feet, undated

Series V: Writings, 2.3 linear feet, 1935-1996

Series VI: Photographs, 2.5 linear feet, 1939-1989

Custodial History

The materials in this collection were retained by the Voget Family until donation to the K. Ross Toole Archives.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mary Kay Voget, 2001. Dissertation purchased in 2004.

Processing Note

Mary Kay Voget sorted and arranged significant portions of the collection before transfer to the K. Ross Toole Archives. This collection was processed at the K. Ross Toole Archives for the first time in 2001. When received, the majority of research notes were organized in card files or file folders. Where Voget had categorized materials by subject, the processor maintained those divisions and separated remaining materials into "to be filed" groups according to established categories. Additional photograph identifications were obtained from members of the Crow tribe, including Fred Voget Lefthand. In 2012, Aaron Brien, a member of the Apsaalooke Nation and a student at the University of Montana, provided additional information about a number of the photographs in this collection. These are documented as his additions in the notes field.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I:  General Anthropology and Native American research , undatedReturn to Top

0.7 linear feet

This series includes notes and readings on anthropology theory and practice, bibliographies of anthropology readings, and a small amount of anthropology research notes. Additionally, the series has reading notes and bibliographies on a number of Native American tribes. The arbitrary arrangement begins with general anthropology and moves into broad Native American topics.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Anthropology theory notes
undated
1/2
Anthropology and ethnology theory notes
undated
1/3
General bibliography of anthropology and archeology readings
undated
1/4
Bibliography regarding culture, history, and evolution
undated
1/5
Card file of book release notices, various authors
undated
1/6
General anthropology notes regarding "constancy of problems"
undated
1/7
Anthropology graduate class planning notes
undated
1/8
Research notes, culture typology
undated
1/9
Shorthand practice notes
undated
1/10
Pamphlet, "A Preliminary Consideration of Areas of Africa"
1924
1/11
Notes on Central Mexico cultures
undated
1/12
Notes and bibliography, South America
undated
1/13
Miscellaneous notes taken in Southwest Museum
December 1937
1/14
Report and discussion on Dobu Islanders, Apache Kinship, Australian Tribes, Primitive Behavior, and Iroquois Women
undated
1/15
Excerpt regarding Shawnee and Delaware Indians from unnamed report
undated
1/16
Pawnee, mimeographed information
undated
1/17
Arapahoe reading notes
undated
1/18
Kiowa reading notes
undated
1/19
Algonquin reading notes
undated
1/20
Native Americans, reading notes
undated
2/1
Brief news article on origin of corn
undated
2/2
Native American population according to 1910 census
undated
2/3
General Native American bibliography
undated
2/4
Bibliography, general Plains tribes
undated
2/5
Bibliography, brief, U.S. Government
undated
2/6
Bibliography, fur trade
undated

Series II:  Crow Indian research , 1936-1995Return to Top

This series includes bibliographies, research notes on readings, annotated and clean copies of materials, newspaper articles, contact information, and interview notes. The bulk of the series is Crow Indian research, but material such as interviews with Shoshoni tribe members have been included to duplicate Voget's synthesis of this research in his book The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance. While the broad order of this series is arbitrary, Voget's original card file order has been maintained. Cards in "to be filed" groups were filed according to established categories and notes not on cards have been inserted into separate folders according to those same categories or topics. Groupings of interviews have been maintained as much as possible.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
2/7
Notes on Frank Bird Linderman's Red Mother
undated
2/8
Notes on 30, 1920 Report Commissioner of Indian Affairs
undated
2/9
Notes on Crow Indian Shelters and information on Fort Belnap Indian Arts and Crafts and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation
undated
2/10
Miscellaneous Crow research notes and memorabilia
undated
2/11
Crow names with abbreviations (informants)
undated
2/12
Indian education specialist address & agency location note
undated
2/13
Crow Agency news articles
1973, 1993
2/14
Crow news articles including reburial of Chief Black Foot, Donald Deernose obituary, and a Henrietta Whiteman profile
1978, 1979
2/15
Miscelleaneous news articles
undated
2/16
References on Crow art
undated
2/17
List of museums
undated
2/18
Bibliography notes
undated
2/19
Early research bibliography on Crow
undated
2/20
Crow bibliography, alphabetized
undated
2/21
Crow bibliographical sources, no order
undated
2/22
Bibliography, Crow and other North American tribes
undated
3/1
Bibliography, Crow and other North American tribes
undated
3/2
Notes on "Phonetic Transcription of Indian Language," Report of Committee of AAA, original 1916, notes
undated
3/3
Pre-history notes and bibliography, Crow
undated
3/4
Notes from Blankets and Moccasins: Plenty Coups and his People, the Crows, author Gwendolin Damon Wagner, published 1936
undated
3/5
Notes from The Oregon Trail, author Francis Parkman, published 1931
undated
3/6
Notes from Meldrum's account in The Indian Journals
undated
3/7
Notes from Peter Nabakov's Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrier
undated
3/8
List of some Crow clans
undated
3/9
Typed copies of various reservation agency reports
1885-1894
3/10
Notes on Crow history
undated
3/11
Miscellaneous short notes, Crow
undated
3/12
Analysis of dating Crow-Hidatsa separation
1991
3/13
Copy of article, "Notes on Crow-Hidatsa Schism"
1977
3/14
Copy of chapters from The Crow Tribe of Indians by Norman Plummer
1974
3/15
Copy of sections from Early Western Travels, Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed. 1904
1966
3/16
Copies of articles on Plains Indians by J.D. Keyser
1979, 1993
3/17
Annotated copy of "The Crow Migration Story," Archeology in Montana
1979
3/18
Copy of "Ethnohistoric Problems in the Crow-Hidatsa Separation," Archaeology in Montana
1979
3/19
Copy of "The North American Berdarche," from Current Anthropology
1983
3/20
Copy of pages from The Missouri Indians
1960
3/21
Annotated copy of portions of The Indian Journal by Lewis Henry Morgan
1959
3/22
Copy of "Journal of Laroque" from Canadian Archives
1911
3/23
Copy of chapters from Narratives of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard
1934
3/24
Abstracts of papers from Montana Archeological Society Annual Meeting
1978
3/25
Copy of "Plains Indian Sun/Dance," by Spier
1921
3/26
B.I.A. "programming for Indian Social and Economic Improvement"
1956-04-12
3/27
Copy of M.A. Thesis "Abaatassheek: The Oilers, Pentecostalism Among the Crow Indians"
1993
4/1
Annotated copy of "Apsaakisshe: A Description of the Crow Indian Sun Dance,"
John A. Grim
undated
4/2
Annotated copies of portions of Indians in the Fur Trade
Arthur J. Ray
1974
4/3
Annotated copy of pages from The Fur Trade in the Upper Missouri, 1840, 1865
John E. Sunder
1965
4/4
Annotated copies of portions of The Missouri Fur Trade, 1840, 1865
undated
4/5
Annotated copies of chapters from Curtis's The North American Indian
undated
4/6
Annotated copy of "The Sundance" from Curtis's The North American Indian
undated
4/7
Annotated copy of "War and Chase" from Curtis's The North American Indians
undated
4/8
Annotated copy of "Myth & Legend" from Curtis's The North American Indian, undated
4/9
Annotated copy of partial chapter "The Apsaroke," from Curtis's The North American Indian
undated
4/10
Annotated copy of "Religion and Ceremonies" from Curtis's The North American Indian
1920
4/11
Copy of chapter on Crow peyotism, author unknown
undated
4/12
Copy of The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Ethnoastronomy
Timothy McCleary
1994
4/13
Annotated copy of "The Sun Dance of the Wind River Shoshoni and Ute"
Robert Lowie
1919
4/14
Annotated copy of Social Life of the Crow Indians
Robert Lowie
1912
4/15
Annotated copy of Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
Robert Lowie
1918
4/16
Copy of Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa, and Mandan Indians
Robert Lowie
1913
4/17
Annotated copy of "Crow Sun Dance"
Robert Lowie
1915
4/18
Annotated copy of "Tobacco Society of the Crow Indians"
1919
4/19
Annotated copy of "The Material Culture of the Crow Indians"
Robert Lowie
1922
5/1
Annotated copy of "Crow Indian Art"
Robert Lowie
1922
5/2
Annotated copy of "Minor Ceremonies of the Crow Indians"
Robert Lowie
1924
5/3
Annotated copy of "Towards a "New" North American Legal History"
Frederick Hoxie
1986
5/4
Annotated copy of "A Culture Which Has Been Inevitably Disintegrated"
Frederick Hoxie
1987
5/5
Annotated copy of "Building a Future on the Past: Crow Indian Leadership in an Era of Division and Reunion"
Frederick Hoxie
1984
5/6
New book information sheet on Frederick Hoxie book release
1988
5/7
Annotated book draft entitled "From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 1, Chapter I/IV
Charles and Susanna Bradley
1920, 1945-1974
5/8
Annotated book draft entitled "From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 1, Chap. V/conclusion
Charles and Susanna Bradley
1920-1945, 1974
5/9
Annotated book draft entitled "From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 2
Charles and Susanna Bradley
1920-1945, 1974
5/10
Annotated book draft entitled "From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 3
Charles and Susanna Bradley
1920-1945, 1974
5/11
Annotated book draft entitled "From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 4
Charles and Susanna Bradley
1920-1945, 1974
5/12
Annotated copy of "An Ethnohistorical Analysis of Crow Political Alliances"
Katherine M. Weist
1977
5/13
Copy of paper entitled "Crow Peyotism"
Robert C. Kiste
1963
5/14
Copy of "The History of Peyotism in Nevada"
Omer C. Stewart
1982
5/15
Copy of "Friend to the Ute"
Omer C. Stewart
1982
6/1
Annotated copy of "An Archeological Demonstration of Migration on the Northern Plains"
William J. Byrne
1978
6/2
Copy of "Crow Rendezvous"
Colin Taylor
1981
6/3
Copy of "Early Nineteenth Century Crow Warrior Costume"
Colin Taylor
1984
6/4
Copy of University of Montana Vision magazine with "Indian Law Clinic" article
1990
6/5
Review of Soldiers Falling into Camp
William W. Savage, Jr.
1992
6/6
Paper entitled "An Early Basket and Plum-Stone Game of Chance Played by Cheyenne Women"
Reno Charlette
1990
6/7
J. E. Ransom's correspondence regarding the Medicine Wheel
1994
6/8
Small copy of 1855 map of Crow Country from unnamed source
undated
6/9
Misc. research on Crow land use and labor statistics
1949, 1975, 1976
6/10
Copy of U.S. Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Land Use and Production Records
1974
6/11
Bureau of Indian Affairs statistics on Crow
1983, 1987, undated
6/12
Copy of Koittai Hilik, Crow newspaper
1977
6/13
Copy of "Second Battle of the Big Horn: Indian Voting Rights Suit," in The Nation news magazine
Wilbur Wood
1986-10-25
6/14
Copy of Supreme Court Case, Montana et. al. v. United States et. al. regarding hunting and fishing rights
1981
6/15
Teacher's guide pamphlet titled "Crow Social Studies"
1986
6/16
Photocopied research labeled "Absaroka - 1968"
1968
6/17
Crow-related research and correspondence
undated
6/18
Crow research notes
undated
6/19
Crow stories, research notes
undated
6/20
Crow culture, research notes
undated
7/1
Crow soul concepts, research notes
undated
7/2
Crow medicine pipe and sweat lodge, research notes
undated
7/3
Crow interview notes and other research
1994-1995
7/4
They Call Me Agnes research (including interview notes)
1993-1995
7/5
Notes from interview with Helen (Pease) Wolf for They Call Me Agnes
1980
7/6
One card titled "Crow - Orphans and the Sacred - Old Woman's Grandchild"
undated
7/7
Notes on Crow marriage, one interview note
1939-08-12, undated
7/8
Notes on Crow "Sex-Typing," interview notes
1939, 1941, undated
7/9
Notes on Crow virtue
undated
7/10
Notes on Crow courtship, interview notes
1939, undated
7/11
Notes on Crow menstruation, interview notes
1939, undated
7/12
Note on Crow "Incense - Purification"
undated
7/13
Notes on Crow pregnancy and childbirth, interview notes
1939, undated
7/14
Notes on Crow pregnancy and birth practices, interview notes
1939, undated
7/15
Note on Crow abortion
undated
7/16
Notes on Crow childcare, interview notes
1939, undated
7/17
Notes on Crow ear piercing, interview note
1939, undated
7/18
Notes on Crow child growth ideas, interview note
1939, undated
7/19
Notes on Crow weaning, interview notes
1939, undated
7/20
Notes on Crow childhood training, interview notes
1939, undated
7/21
Notes on Crow childhood play, interview notes
1939, undated
7/22
Notes on Crow teaching practices
undated
7/23
Notes on Crow names and naming practices, interview notes
1939, undated
7/24
Notes on Crow medical practices, interview note
1939, undated
7/25
Note on Crow "curing" or healing practices
undated
7/26
Notes on Crow perspectives toward diseases, sexual and other, interview note
1939, and other undated
8/1
Notes on Crow warfare, interview notes
1939, undated
8/2
Notes on Crow treatment of enemies
undated
8/3
Notes on Crow captives
undated
8/4
Notes on Crow and other tribes' war lodges and camp structures, interviews
1941 and other undated
8/5
Notes on Crow warrior image and character
undated
8/6
Note on Crow viewpoint toward reputation and special skills
undated
8/7
Notes on Crow war party leadership
undated
8/8
Notes on reception of returning Crow war party
undated
8/9
Notes on Crow coup
undated
8/10
Notes on Crow "names - honor," interview
1939, and other undated
8/11
Notes on Crow "healing - military"
undated
8/12
Notes on Crow men's fraternities
undated
8/13
Notes on Crow adults
undated
8/14
Note on Crow youth
undated
8/15
Notes on Crow religion
undated
8/16
Notes on Crow creation myth
undated
8/17
Notes on Crow deities or spirits
undated
8/18
Notes on Crow "Little people or dwarfs"
1969-08-02
8/19
Notes on Crow medicines, interview
1939, undated
8/20
Note on rock medicine
undated
8/21
Notes on Crow fasting
undated
8/22
Notes on Crow dreams and spirit encounters, interview
1939-08-12, undated
8/23
Interview with F. Lefthand on "No-Fire Beings"
1988-10-17
8/24
Notes on Crow medicine men, interviews
1939, undated
8/25
Notes on Crow church, interviews
1939, 1940, undated
8/26
Notes on Crow sacred tobacco
undated
8/27
Notes on ritual diffusion of tobacco
undated
8/28
Notes on Crow "tobacco, adoption - worship"
undated
8/29
Notes on Crow Sun Dance
undated
8/30
Notes from early manuscripts of Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: an autobiography, respectively, final version published and notes approx. 1984
edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald
1991
9/1
Telephone interview with Tom Yellowtail covering adoption, tobacco, Shoshoni Dance, and money tree
1990-06-17
9/2
Thank you note from Michael Fitzgerald
undated
9/3
Magazine article about Thomas Yellowtail
1993
9/4
Thomas Yellowtail funeral program and obituary
1993-11-20, 1993-12-06
9/5
Notes labeled "informant accounts"
1984
9/6
Notes on Crow "paint"
undated
9/7
Notes on Crow "respect," interview
1980
9/8
Notes on Crow "give-away," interview
1941, 1980
9/9
Interview with A.N. Thomas
1941-10-21
9/10
Notes on Crow use of and attitudes toward peyote, interview
1941-05-27, and other undated
9/11
Notes on Crow smoke - prayer, interviews
1939 and 1980, and other undated
9/12
Notes on Crow conflict and fighting, interview
1939, and other undated
9/13
Notes on Crow insult
undated
9/14
Notes on Crow attitudes toward theft, interview
1939, and other undated
9/15
Note on Crow perspective of good and bad luck
undated
9/16
Interview note regarding existence of Crow writing
undated
9/17
Note from interview with Ball on Batsirupe
1939-08-11
9/18
Notes on Crow council district, interviews
1939
9/19
Notes on modern Crow politics, interviews 1980 & 1987, other undated
9/20
Notes on telephone interview with Frank Voget Lefthand regarding political changes
1994-01-04
9/21
General notes
undated
9/22
Notes generally titled "scattered data on sundance," some interviews
undated
9/23
Interview notes from reminiscences of "Ball"
1939-08-08 - 1939-08-11
9/24
News clipping about Sun Dance news rights
1987
9/25
Pencil drawing of Sun Dance staff
undated
9/26
Typed notes on Sun Dance, participants and dates
undated
9/27
Interview letter with response from Pete Lefthand on marriage, fasting, medicine doll, and Sun Dance
1947-04-08
9/28
Notes on Crow, legendary events and history
undated
9/29
Notes on Hidatsa, cultural background for Crow
undated
9/30
Notes on Crow-Hidatsa Relations
undated
9/31
Notes comparing Mountain Crow and River Crow
undated
9/32
Notes on treaties
undated
9/33
Notes on trade
undated
9/34
Notes on pre-reservation
undated
9/35
Notes on reservation life, interview
1984, and other undated
9/36
Note on agent regulation of Crow social style
undated
9/37
Notes on inter-tribal relations and view of other tribes
undated
9/38
Various appellations applied to the Crows
undated
10/1
Notes on Joseph Medicine-Crow, interview
1987-06-23, undated
10/2
Notes on gestures and sign language
undated
10/3
Notes from readings on character traits assigned to Crows
undated
10/4
Notes on Crow perspective of territory
undated
10/5
Notes on Crow clans, interview
1988-09-01, undated
10/6
Notes on father's clan
undated
10/7
Notes on relationships between clans
undated
10/8
Crow dance societies, interview
1984, 1987, 1988
10/9
Notes on adoption
undated
10/10
Notes on kinship behavior
undated
10/11
Notes on kinship terminology
undated
10/12
Notes on joking relationship
undated
10/13
Notes on local divisions, bands
undated
10/14
Notes on chiefs and political organization
undated
10/15
Notes on camp layout and organization
undated
10/16
Notes on camp circle
undated
10/17
Notes on conflict resolution
undated
10/18
Notes on police camp
undated
10/19
Notes on teepees
undated
10/20
Notes on annual calendar months
undated
10/21
Notes on ethnobotany
undated
10/22
Notes on food collection (women)
undated
10/23
Notes on hunting
undated
10/24
Notes on transportation
undated
10/25
Notes on horses
undated
10/26
Notes on horse equipment, saddle
undated
10/27
Notes on dogs
undated
10/28
Notes on food
undated
10/29
Notes on maternal culture and technology
undated
10/30
Notes on kitchen and eating
undated
10/31
Notes on bow and arrow
undated
10/32
Notes on food preparation
undated
10/33
Notes on eating and etiquette
undated
10/34
Notes on drinking and smoking
undated
10/35
Notes on tanning and hides
undated
10/36
Notes on bags or containers
undated
10/37
Notes on admired types and behavior
undated
10/38
Notes on body customs and care
undated
11/1
Notes on hair
undated
11/2
Notes on cleanliness
undated
11/3
Notes on dress
undated
11/4
Notes on age categories and biological maturation, interviews
1939, undated
11/5
Notes on burial
undated
11/6
Notes on mourning
undated
11/7
Notes on dances, reading and interview
undated
11/8
Notes on modern dance
undated
11/9
Interview notes regarding ghost signals and death
1988
11/10
Interview notes regarding medicine necklaces and names for babies
1987-01-18
11/11
Note on Glad Song, interview
1988-10-17
11/12
Notes on praise songs, interview
1988-10-17, undated
11/13
Notes on Crow Indian Fair, interview
1988-10-17, undated
11/14
Notes on games - competition
undated
11/15
Notes on gambling
undated
11/16
Notes on home life
undated
11/17
Notes on sleeping arrangements
undated
11/18
Note on acculturation - change
undated
11/19
Notes on acculturation
undated
11/20
List of early schools for Native Americans and other note on education
undated
11/21
Notes from readings on coyote
undated
11/22
Interviews on "Old Man Coyote"
undated
11/23
Interview with F. Lefthand on the sun, woodpecker, and Washington's Birthday
undated
11/24
Interviews with Marshall Lefthand on prayer, mystical power, and blessing
1989
11/25
Interview with Marshall Lefthand regarding sexual abuse conference
1989
11/26
Interview with Laverne Williamson, 4th of Pow Wow
1989-06-29
11/27
Interview with F. Lefthand on descent of Crow from sun
1989-07-16
11/28
Notes from telephone conversation with Barbara Lefthand, mention of fashion
1990
11/29
Various interview notes with Frank Voget Lefthand on Tobacco Dance, Sun Dance, and Custer re-enactment
1984, 1991-04-07
11/30
Notes on conversation with Ferole Pease
1996-02-08
11/31
Interview notes on "stylish tendencies of Crow"
1996-02-08
11/32
Crow "notes to be transcribed to index cards"
undated
11/33
Letter from Ferole & Bill
1987
11/34
Notes from interview with Frederick
May, 1993
11/35
Letter from T. Larson Medicine Horse
undated
11/36
Interview with Feral Mae (Hogan) Pease, Crow Agency, Montana
undated
11/37
Notes regarding Crow-Cheyenne conflict over Crow Agency Hospital
undated
11/38
Interview with Bill Russell, Lodge Grass and Pryor, Montana
1956, undated
11/39
Interview with Bill Pease regarding Bill Russell
undated
11/40
Note about Ben Jefferson, Lodge Grass, Montana
undated
11/41
Interviews, notes, and records from Flathead Reservation, Montana
1950, 1956, undated
11/42
Interview with Sam and Flora Hathaway, Pryor, Montana
1956-06-13
11/43
Interview with Poesy Edward Whiteman, Pryor, Montana
1956
11/44
Interview with Mrs. E.A.K. Cashen, Pryor, Montana
undated
11/45
Interview with Oliver Verme, Crow Agency, Montana
1956
11/46
Interview with Josephine Russell, Lodge Grass, Montana 1956
11/47
Copy of Kronmiller letter discussing Crow Tribe Resolutions
1956-06-06
11/48
One page unsigned resolution to alter Crow land lease terms
undated
11/49
Copy of "Constitution and By-Laws of the Crow Tribal Council"
undated
11/50
Photocopies and notes from folder labeled "Mike Cowdrey"
undated
11/51
Kay Voget Crow notes
1968-06-08
11/52
Letter from Agnes Deernose and Ataloa Hogan Harris
undated
11/53
Handwritten list of literature supplied by D. Deernose
undated
12/1
Crow giveaway feast given by George Goes-Ahead-Pretty of Pryor
1946-04-28
12/2
Arrow throwing interview, Crow
1946-04-26
12/3
Jack Covers-Up interview on sun dance, Crow
1946-04-25
12/4
Jim Blaine interview on sun dance, Crow
1946-04-24
12/5
Medicine Crow interview on sun dance
1946-04-23
12/6
Interview with Plays on sun dance, Crow
1946-04-22
12/7
Interviews on sun dance, Crow
1946 and undated
12/8
Interviews on sun dance, much shorthand, Crow
1940s
12/9
Notes for non-sun dance member questionnaire
undated
12/10
Guide for sun dance member questionnaire
undated
12/11
Sun dance interviews with Lynn St. Clair, Tom Wesaw, Tom Compton, and John Truhujo, Shoshoni
August 1948
12/12
Interview with Antonius La Jennesse, Shoshoni
August 1948
12/13
Interviews with Mrs. Mike T. Montour, Caughnawaga Iroquois
1949, 1950
12/14
Signature of Pablo Juan Truhujo
undated
12/15
List of Crow Agency sun dancers
1944
12/16
Compiled lists and tables of sun dance and related data
undated
12/17
Compiled lists of church membership status
undated
12/18
Political questionnaire
undated
12/19
Interviews with members and other information on Shoshoni-Arapahoe Council
1948
12/20
Shoshoni-Arapahoe Joint Council Meetings
1947, 1948
12/21
Meetings of the Business Councils of the Arapahoe and Shoshoni
1940-12-06, 1941-12-11

Series III:  Field research notebooks , 1949-1993Return to Top

1.0 linear feet

This series includes Voget's handwritten field research notebooks on the Shoshoni, the Iroquois, the Blackfeet, and the Crow. Many parts of the notebooks are written in shorthand. The Iroquois and Blackfeet notebooks were transcribed in 2003 and 2004.

The series is arranged in chronological order.
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
12/22
Field research notebook, Shoshoni, some shorthand
1948
12/23
Field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand
1949-08-16, undated
28/1
Transcription of field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/1
Field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand
1949-08-16, undated
28/2
Transcription of field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/2
Field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand
1949
28/3
Transcription of field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/3
Field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand
1950
28/4
Transcription of field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/4
Field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand
1950
28/5
Transcription of field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/5
Field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, some shorthand
1950
28/6
Transcription of field research notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/6
Field research notebook, Blackfeet, mostly shorthand
1956
28/7
Transcription of field research notebook, Blackfeet
13/7
Field interview notebook, Crow
1939-07-08 - 1939-07-20
13/8
Field interview notebook, Crow
1939-08-12 - 1939-08-17
13/9
Field research notebook, Crow, no shorthand
1986
13/10
Field research notebook, Crow, no shorthand
1987
14/1
Field research notebook supplement, Crow, no shorthand
1987
14/2
Field research notebook, Crow
1993

Series IV:  Crow language research , undatedReturn to Top

1.0 linear feet

This series includes a small amount of language research notes from secondary sources, but the bulk of the series consists of handwritten and typed cards with a word or phrase in English and the corresponding Crow word or phrase with pronunciation markings.

This series is arranged alphabetically by the English word or the significant word in a phrase.
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
14/3
Crow language research notes
undated
14/4
Language cards with multiple words and phrases
undated
14/5
"A"
undated
14/6
"B"
undated
14/7
"C"
undated
14/8
"D"
undated
14/9
"E"
undated
14/10
"F"
undated
15/1
"G"
undated
15/2
"H"
undated
15/3
"I"
undated
15/4
"J"
undated
15/5
"K"
undated
15/6
"L"
undated
15/7
"M"
undated
15/8
"N"
undated
15/9
"O"
undated
15/10
"P"
undated
15/11
"Q"
undated
15/12
"R"
undated
16/1
"S"
undated
16/2
"T"
undated
16/3
"T"
undated
16/4
"U"
undated
16/5
"W"
undated
16/6
"Y"
undated

Series V:  Writings , 1935-1996Return to Top

2.3 linear feet

This series includes some of Voget's undergraduate papers, working drafts of articles and book chapters, and copies of published articles. The drafts preceded published works and probably a planned history of the Crow Indians that was not published at the time of processing.

This series is arranged in rough chronological order within the categories of term papers, drafts, and published works.
Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
16/7
Three copies of term paper for History of Social Thought class
1935
16/8
Copy of term paper for History of Social Thought class
1935
17/1
Paper for Main Currents of European Thought class
1936
17/2
Analysis of social theorists for Contemporary Social Theories class
1937
17/3
Notes for lecture or article on perspective and focus in anthropology
undated
27/1
Dissertation, The Diffusion of the Wind River Shoshone Sundance to the Crow Indians of Montana
1948
17/4
Broad Crow article outline
undated
17/5
Drafts of article or chapter on Crow Arrow Throw
1946
17/6
Retyped or revised draft of "Social Life of the Crow Arrow Throwing Game"
undated
17/7
Draft of article, "William Big Day: A Crow Innovator"
1946
17/8
Draft of article "Anthropological Theory and Iroquois Ethnology
undated
17/9
Draft of article or lecture entitled "The Status of American Indian Women: A Comparison of Crow and Iroquois Women"
undated
17/10
Draft of Voget introduction to later printing of Blankets and Moccasins, originally published in 1933
undated
17/11
Notes for lecture or article on Crow Indians and Sun Dance
undated
17/12
Draft of table of contents, notes, and bibliography for The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
undated
17/13
Early chapter outline for The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
undated
17/14
Notes and partial draft of Chapter 6 of The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
undated
17/15
Some chapter drafts for The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance
undated
17/16
Index for The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, A-N
undated
17/17
Index for The Shoshon-Crow Sun Dance, O-Z
undated
18/1
Organizing notes for They Call Me Agnes
undated
18/2
Handwritten article or chapter, "Crow Mythology and the Creator"
undated
18/3
Letter from Enciclopedia Italiana
1986
18/4
Draft of "Anthropology and Ethnology" for Enciclopedia Italiana
1988
18/5
Article on Crow for publication in Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 13
1987
18/6
Notebook, possible organizing notes for manuscript
undated
18/7
Drafts of chapters on Crow origins for history of Crow manuscript
1991
18/8
Draft of chapters of Crow worldview for history of Crow manuscript
undated
18/9
Drafts of chapter on Crow religion for manuscript on history of Crow
undated
18/10
Drafts of chapter, "Religion in Crow Indian Culture and Culture History"
1989, 1990, 1994, undated
19/1
Rough draft of chapter, "Crow Culture History"
undated
19/2
Draft of chapter, "Crow Origins"
1991 and undated
19/3
Draft of chapter, "Sacred Design of Hidatsa Society and Culture"
1991 and undated
19/4
"Work copies" of chapter, "Crow Culture"
undated
19/5
Draft of chapter, "Historic Crow Culture"
undated
19/6
Draft of chapter, "Reservation Culture"
undated
19/7
Drafts and correspondence in regard to Voget's introduction to reprint of Old Man Coyote by Frank Bird Linderman
1995
19/8
Abstract, "Were the Crow Indians Conservationists?"
undated
19/9
Article or chapter on Arapahoe culture
undated
19/10
Bibliography for unnamed manuscript
undated
19/11
One page note on paper about Crow ceremonial rights
undated
20/1
Bibliography of published articles by Voget
undated
20/2
Article titled "The Folk Society - An Anthropological Application"
1954
20/3
Article titled "Forgotten Forerunners of Anthropology"
undated
20/4
Article titled "Anthropology and Sociology"
undated
20/5
Article titled "Man and Culture: An Essay in Changing Anthropological Interpretations"
1960
20/6
Article titled "American Indian Reformations and Acculturation"
1960
20/7
Article titled "Reform und Akkomadation: Unter Amerikanischen Indianern"
undated
20/8
Article titled "Comment on Robert K. Thomas' "The Redbird Smith Movement"
1961
20/9
Article, "Progress, Science, History, and Evolution in 18th and 19th Century Anthropology"
1967
20/10
Article titled "Anthropology in the Age of Enlightenment: Progress and Utopian Functionalism"
1968
20/11
Article titled, "A Six Nations' Diary, 1891-1894"
1969
20/12
Article titled, "The History of Cultural Anthropology"
1974
20/13
Article titled "Reflections on Acculturation Processes and Stages: A Reply to Deward E. Walker, Jr."
1976
20/14
Academic Encyclopedia articles
undated
20/15
Entry on Franz Boas in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
undated
20/16
Article titled "Cultural Change and the American Indian"
undated
20/17
Article titled "Sacred Numerology and Management of the Universe by the Crow Indians"
undated
20/18
Article titled "Warfare and the Integration of Crow Indian Culture"
undated
20/19
Article titled "The Reservation Community as an Interactional System"
undated
20/20
Review titled "Ethnoscience Versus the Survey: Steps for Gathering Data"
1980
20/21
Article titled "The Crow Indian Give-Away"
1987
20/22
Article titled "Religion in Crow Indian Culture and Culture History"
1996
20/23
"Before the Indian Claims Commission: Docket Nos. 106 and 107: Osage Research Report," (missing title page, page 1, and bibliographic reference pages 357-371)
1946, 1966

Series VI:  Photos , 1939-1989Return to Top

2.5 linear feet

This series includes Voget's photos, slides, and some negatives taken throughout his research. The bulk of the photos chronicle Crow activities such as the sun dance and arrow throw, feasts, and giveaways. A smaller number of photos are of specific individuals significant to Crow history and/or Voget's research. Another small group of photos pertain to Native American artifacts, the Shoshoni sun dance, and to Mohawk and other Six Nations groups. Most of the photos are very usable with the exception of photos 25/75 through 25/89, which are out of focus. Original photo captions and photo groupings were maintained where they existed. Otherwise, the photos in this series are arranged in rough thematic and chronological order. The slides are grouped at the end of this series.

In 2012, additional or corrected information for some photographs and context about places and events was provided by Aaron Brien, a member of the Apsaalooke Nation, in consultation with other members of the Nation. This information was added with the preface [From Aaron Brien]. When a date was corrected, the correct date was placed in the date field.

Digital copies of the materials in Box 20/Folder 30 through Box 26 are available online at https://umt.box.com/v/Mss318FredWVogetPapers. These digital copies were created in 2009 and are meant for reference only.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
20/24
Photocopies of Crow photos from various publications
undated
20/25
Negatives of pictures and maps from various publications
undated
20/26
Color copies and photocopies of photos used in They Call Me Agnes
undated
20/27
Negative strips relevant to They Call Me Agnes
circa 1980s
20/28
Negative strips from photos used in They Call Me Agnes
circa 1980s
20/29
Negative strips relevant to They Call Me Agnes
undated
photo_number
20/30 318(VI):001
Joy, daughter of Robert Yellowtail and Agnes
undated
20/31 318(VI):002
Danny and dance troupe
[From Aaron Brien] Standing: Tom Yellow Tail, Reginald Laubin. Sitting: Joseph Medicine Crow, Donnie Deernose, Henry Old Coyote.
undated
20/32 318(VI):003
Agnes used in They Call Me Agnes
[From Aaron Brien] Agnes Yellow Tail Deer Nose.
undated
20/33 318(VI):004
Yellowtail family
[From Aaron Brien] Left to Right: Tom Yellow Tail, Carson Yellow Tail, Robert Yellow Tail, Lizzie (mother), Amy, and Agnes Yellow Tail.
circa 1930
20/34 318(VI):005 undated
20/35 318(VI):006
Amy, Agnes's sister
undated
20/36 318(VI):007
circa 1920
20/37 318(VI):008
Agnes's mother at age 100
[From Aaron Brien] Lizzie Yellow Tail at age 100, mother to Agnes Yellow Tail Deer Nose.
undated
20/38 318(VI):009
Two rows of Crow women in traditional dress
[From Aaron Brien] Amy Yellowtail the sister to Agnes Yellowtail Deernose. Amy was married to John White Man.
undated
20/39 318(VI):010
Crow boarding school, Crow Agency, Montana
1894
20/40 318(VI):011
Crow Shoshoni Sun Dance, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] This sundance photo is of the first sundance held among the Apsaalooke people since 1875.
1941
20/41 318(VI):012
Tripod reminder of Sun Dance, Pryor, Montana, June
1941
20/42 318(VI):013
John Truhujo praying for dancers to give them strength, Pryor, Montana
1941
20/43 318(VI):014
Tripod frame with buffalo head, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] These sacred items will be put on the "center pole" of the sundance lodge.
1941
20/44 318(VI):015 1941
21/1 318(VI):016
"Baby cave" at Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Baby Cave (Baakaatitshiwishe or baby footprints.) Pryor, Montana. This place is located right behind where the Baptist Church is today.
undated
21/2 318(VI):017
Henry Big Day with daughter, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] The bundle in the background can be hanging outside for a number of reasons that only the owner may know.
1939
21/3 318(VI):018
Medicine bundle belonging to Henry Big Day's father-in-law hung on west side of house, Pryor, Montana
undated
21/4 318(VI):019 July 4, 1940
21/5 318(VI):020
Portion of the Medicine Wheel, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming
[From Aaron Brien] A portion of Bighorn medicine wheel.
July 4, 1940
21/6 318(VI):021
Main business section of Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] The Apsaalooke refer to Pryor, Montana, as "Baahpuua" (They Shoot the Rock). This area has many names, this is most common.
1939
21/7 318(VI):022
Main business section of Pryor, Montana
1939
21/8 318(VI):023
Wolf Mountains near Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] The Apsaalooke refer to the Wolf Mountains as "Cheetish" (Wolf's Teeth) or "Aluuwiluttuua" (Where They Get Red Clay).
1941
21/9 318(VI):024
Medicine Wheel, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming
July 4, 1940
21/10 318(VI):025
Medicine Wheel, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming
July 4, 1940
21/11 318(VI):026
Medicine Wheel, Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming
July 4, 1940
21/12 318(VI):027
Unidentified building
[From Aaron Brien] Round Hall in Crow Agency Montana. Apsaalooke call this building "Awaasuuchichiaxa" (Round House). It was built in the 1930's. It was torn down around 2006.
1940
21/13 318(VI):028
Cemetery
[From Aaron Brien] Cemetery at the Little Bighorn Battle Site. This is not a cemetery but rather the markers of where bodies were found.
undated
21/14 318(VI):029 undated
21/15 318(VI):030
Woman holding baby at Crow Fair
1940
21/16 318(VI):031
Man holding baby at Crow Fair
1940
21/17 318(VI):032
Crow camp scene
[From Aaron Brien] this picture was taken at the Annual Crow Fair.
1940
21/18 318(VI):033
Chief Holds-the-Enemy wearing Hudson Bay coat
[From Aaron Brien] Holds-the-Enemy wearing Hudson Bay coat. Holds the enemy was not a Chief but he was a respected elder among the Apsaalooke. His father, Pretty Eagle, was a Chief.
1939
21/19 318(VI):034
Chief Holds-the-Enemy, Prior, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Holds-the-Enemy was not a Chief but he was a respected elder among the Apsaalooke. His father, Pretty Eagle, was a Chief.
1939
21/20 318(VI):035
Camp views of annual Crow Fair
1939
21/21 318(VI):036
Camp views of annual Crow Fair
1939
21/22 318(VI):037
Folka Lefthand combing her hair, Crow Fair
1939
21/23 318(VI):038
Camp view at annual Crow Fair
1939
21/24 318(VI):039 1940
21/25 318(VI):040 1940
21/26 318(VI):041 1939
21/27 318(VI):042
Eating at the annual Crow Fair
1939
21/28 318(VI):043
Ruth Backbone and Elaine Mikalson at Crow Fair
[From Aaron Brien] Ruth Backbone would later be known as "Ruth Alden."
1940
21/29 318(VI):044
Two men observing fair
1940
21/30 318(VI):045 1940
21/31 318(VI):046
Man in traditional dress
1940
21/32 318(VI):047 1939
21/33 318(VI):048 undated
21/34 318(VI):049 undated
21/35 318(VI):050 undated
21/36 318(VI):051
Man and children in camp area at Crow Fair
[From Aaron Brien] Pete Left Hand and child at camp during Crow Fair.
1939
21/37 318(VI):052
Teepee
[From Aaron Brien] Little Nest's Painted Teepee. This Teepee most likely belonged to Little Nest. He was known for the feather figures on the outside of his teepee opposite of the door. He received this from a vision during a fasting some years before. These feathers are known as "Feather Flag."
1940
21/38 318(VI):053 circa 1940
21/39 318(VI):054
Henry Big Day and horse at Crow Fair
undated
21/40 318(VI):055 undated
21/41 318(VI):056
Henry Big Day and horse at Crow Fair
undated
21/42 318(VI):057
Henry Big Day and horse at Crow Fair
undated
21/43 318(VI):058 undated
21/44 318(VI):059
Henry Big Day and unknown man on horseback at Crow Fair
undated
21/45 318(VI):060 1940
21/46 318(VI):061 1939
21/47 318(VI):062
Assembling for the Crow Fair parade
[From Aaron Brien] Northeast section of the camp. Closer view.
1939
21/48 318(VI):063
Crow Fair parade
[From Aaron Brien] Robert Yellowtail.
August 1940
21/49 318(VI):064
Crow Fair parade
1940
21/50 318(VI):065 1939
21/51 318(VI):066 undated
21/52 318(VI):067
Crow Fair parade
[From Aaron Brien] Robert Yellowtail.
undated
21/53 318(VI):068
Crow Fair parade
undated
21/54 318(VI):069
Crow Fair parade passing on
1939
21/55 318(VI):070 1939
21/56 318(VI):071 undated
21/57 318(VI):072 undated
21/58 318(VI):073
Crow Fair, Crow Agency, Montana
1939
21/59 318(VI):074
Parade at Crow Fair
[From Aaron Brien] Robert Yellowtail.
1940
21/60 318(VI):075
Raising teepee at Crow Fair
1940
21/61 318(VI):076 undated
21/62 318(VI):077
Herb Reed at Crow Fair
1940
21/63 318(VI):078
Reed kids and Thelma in camp at Crow Fair
1940
21/64 318(VI):079
Three children at Crow Fair
circa 1940
21/65 318(VI):080
Small girl in traditional Crow dress, Crow Fair
circa 1940
21/66 318(VI):081 undated
21/67 318(VI):082
Henry Big Day in traditional clothing with pinto horse
1940
21/68 318(VI):083
Henry Big Day on pinto
1940
21/69 318(VI):084 1939
21/70 318(VI):085
Camp scene with woman and child in foreground
undated
21/71 318(VI):086 1939
21/72 318(VI):087
Crow teepees with ramada-type shelter at Crow Fair, Crow Agency, Montana
1939
21/73 318(VI):088 1940
21/74 318(VI):089
Teepee
[From Aaron Brien] Painted teepee. Possibly Little Nest's teepee.
undated
21/75 318(VI):090
Teepee
undated
21/76 318(VI):091
Teepee
undated
21/77 318(VI):092
Crow teepees
undated
21/78 318(VI):093 1940
21/79 318(VI):094
Child's play teepee, Crow
1939
21/80 318(VI):095 1939
21/81 318(VI):096
Crow women at Crow Fair
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Women
August 1939
21/82 318(VI):097
Women and children under canopy, Crow Fair
1940
21/83 318(VI):098
View of Crow Fair camp
1940
21/84 318(VI):099
View of Crow Fair camp
1940
21/85 318(VI):100 1940
21/86 318(VI):101
View of Crow Fair camp
1940
21/87 318(VI):102
View of Crow Fair camp
1940
21/88 318(VI):103
View of Crow Fair camp
1940
21/89 318(VI):104
View of Crow Fair camp
1940
21/90 318(VI):105
Returning war party at Crow Fair
[From Aaron Brien] It is the Apsaalooke belief that, when a Clan Father makes a "good wish" for the clan child it will come true. The praise song is one way of making that wish.
1939
22/1 318(VI):106
Remnants of fort build by Cheyenne about five miles from Lodge Grass, Montana
undated
22/2 318(VI):107 1941
22/3 318(VI):108 1941
22/4 318(VI):109
Gathering, possibly for feast
undated
22/5 318(VI):110
Three boys at Crow Fair
1939
22/6 318(VI):111
Looking out over North Fork of Lodge Grass Creek, Montana
1941
22/7 318(VI):112 1941
22/8 318(VI):113
Inspecting marriage gifts
[From Aaron Brien] It is Apsaalooke custom to give gifts to the newly married couple. An Apsaalooke mother will give a teepee and new dress as well as many household goods. This is a custom that is still practiced.
1940
22/9 318(VI):114
Hartford Whitehip's marriage, inspecting gift of groom and bride's parents and kin, Lodge Grass, Montana
1940
22/10 318(VI):115
Whitehip marriage goods displayed, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Gloria's Apsaalooke name was Weasel Song "Utteiishuhe." This was given to her by the well-respected Pryor Montana elder Plainfeather.
1940
22/11 318(VI):116
Gloria Goes Ahead, Crow bride, with wedding gifts, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Gloria was born in 1931 making her 9 years old in 1940. Gloria was married in 1950; [From Archives] The Gloria Goes Ahead photographs were dated by an earlier processor as 1940.
1950
22/12 318(VI):117
Gloria Goes Ahead, Crow bride, inspecting wedding gifts
1950
22/13 318(VI):118
Crow bride and young groom (Gloria Goes Ahead and Barnard Cummins) with wedding presents
[From Aaron Brien] Bernard and Gloria Cummins looking at a "wedding gift horse."
1950
22/14 318(VI):119
Possible wedding gift display
undated
22/15 318(VI):120
View of house, barn, and corrals, Pryor, Montana
1941
22/16 318(VI):121
View of house, barn, and corrals, Pryor, Montana
1941
22/17 318(VI):122
Tobacco garden, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Garden fence. This Ceremony is called Oopawuussiio, "Putting tobacco in." To be involved in the Tobacco gardens one must be a member of the Tobacco Society "Baasshussuua."
May 30, 1941
22/18 318(VI):123a
Tobacco garden 6 days after planting, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] View From inside the Tobacco Garden six days after planting.
May 30, 1941
22/18 318(VI):123b
Tobacco garden 6 days after planting, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] View From inside the Tobacco Garden six days after planting.
May 30, 1941
22/19 318(VI):124 1940
22/20 318(VI):125
Woman staking hide down
[From Aaron Brien] Unknown woman nailing hide down.
1940
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Woman working on tanning hide, Lodge Grass, Montana
1940
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Woman tanning hide, Lodge Grass, Montana 1940
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Hide stretched between pegs for tanning
1939
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Hide stretched between pegs for tanning
1939
22/25 318(VI):130
Woman-on-top-of-the-ground demonstrates fleshing of deer hide
1941
22/26 318(VI):131
Woman-on-top-of-the-ground softens hide by scraping
1941
22/27 318(VI):132 undated
22/28 318(VI):133
Two people
[From Aaron Brien] Two unidentified people getting rest inside the Sundance lodge.
undated
22/29 318(VI):134
Crow child in parade dress on black and white pinto
[From Aaron Brien] Unidentified Apsaalooke girl on black and white pinto parade horse.
1940
22/30 318(VI):135
Crow child in parade dress on dark-colored horse
[From Aaron Brien] Unidentified Apsaalooke girl on sorrel parade horse.
1940
22/31 318(VI):136
Crow feast after giveaway
[From Aaron Brien] It is common after any Apsaalooke "doings" to have a feed, as seen here.
1940
22/32 318(VI):137
Dancing fraternity in background and circle of men playing hand games in foreground
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Hot Dancers and singers, with children watching in foreground. The Voget description states these men are dancing and a group of men are playing handgames. It was mistaken. Singers were taken for handgame players.
1940
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Eddie Roundface signaling in Handgame, Pryor
[From Aaron Brien] This a game played only in the winter. It is a Apsaalooke taboo to play this game during the summer months.
circa 1939-1940
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Yellow Face and Holds-the-Enemy at Crow Fair
[From Aaron Brien] Yellow Face in this image may be "Half Yellow Face" who was best known for his role as a scout for the 7th Calvary. But he himself was what the Apsaalooke refer to as "Pipe Carrier" commonly known as a war leader. Holds-the-Enemy was the son of respected Chief Pretty Eagle.
August 1939
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Holds-the-Enemy on horseback at crow Fair
1939
22/36 318(VI):141 undated
22/37 318(VI):142
Branding by Yellowtail, the Crow Superintendent
undated
22/38 318(VI):143
Branding
undated
22/39 318(VI):144
Gathering poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Two unidentified men near unused sweat lodge, Crow Reservation This description says "Gathering poles for sundance lodge. But in folder 7 of box 22 this same picture states "Teepee Pole Springs in the Big Horn Mountains." It is important to note that Tipi Pole Springs and Crow Agency are not close to each other.
1941
22/40 318(VI):145
Gathering poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Getting ready to construct the Sundance lodge, Crow Agency. From looking at the negative this is not gathering poles for the sundance but it is sundance related. This is known as "aweeleennissuua" or "Bitaalasshia paaxaau". This is a ceremony done right before the Sundance.
1941
22/41 318(VI):146
Gathering poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Getting ready to construct the Sundance lodge. This picture looks like the same event as folder 40.
1941
22/42 318(VI):147
Gathering poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Unidentified men talking, the "center pole" lying on the ground, Crow Agency. This picture looks like the same event as folder 40.
1941
22/43 318(VI):148
Gathering poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke men getting ready to raise the Center Pole, Crow Agency. This picture is of the "Raising of the center pole".
1941
22/44 318(VI):149
Gathering poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Construction of the Sundance Lodge, Crow Agency. This was only the second sundance among the Apsaalooke since 1875. The first being in Pryor, Montana, one month before.
1941
22/45 318(VI):150 1941
22/46 318(VI):151
Loading poles for sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Loading the "Center Pole" Crow Agency, Montana. The sponger for this sundance was Gus Other Medicine and the Sundance Chief was John Truhujo.
1941
22/47 318(VI):152
Truck dragging wagon with poles, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
22/48 318(VI):153 1941
22/49 318(VI):154 1941
22/50 318(VI):155
Woodpile which lay south of the buffalo head, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
22/51 318(VI):156
Preparing center pole, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Unknown men preparing the center pole to be raised, Crow Agency, Montana.
1941
22/52 318(VI):157
Preparation of sun dance lodge center pole, Charlie Ten/bear in immediate foreground, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
22/53 318(VI):158 1941
22/54 318(VI):159
Messenger eagle marking center pole location, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Stuffed eagle that is going to be placed on the Center pole, Crow Agency. The Apsaalooke say that the eagle is placed on the Center pole to represent freedom. The eagle has no boundaries. As well as the Apsaalooke belief that all birds carry our prayers to the Creator.
1941
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Messenger eagle resting on cottonwood foliage frame pointed to sun, marking location of center pole, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
22/56 318(VI):161 undated
22/57 318(VI):162
Ready to attach buffalo head to center pole, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
22/58 318(VI):163
Attaching buffalo head to center pole, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] The Center pole has three main objects attached to it. The Buffalo head, Eagle and a Bundle of willows. The Center pole also has three or four black lines at the base marking the length of the dance.
1941
22/59 318(VI):164 1941
22/60 318(VI):165 undated
22/61 318(VI):166
Raising center pole for sun dance
1940
22/62 318(VI):167 1941
22/63 318(VI):168
Raising center pole for sun dance
1940
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Stabilizing center pole for sun dance
1941
22/65 318(VI):170 1941
22/66 318(VI):171 1941
22/67 318(VI):172 1941
22/68 318(VI):173 1941
22/69 318(VI):174 1941
22/70 318(VI):175 1941
22/71 318(VI):176
Men waiting in and by truck, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Hot Dancers in back of pickup truck. It looks like these dancers are getting ready to take part in the Crow Fair Parade.
1941
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Early sun dance lodge construction, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] At this point the sundance lodge is almost up. They are putting up the rafter poles of which there are 12, to represent the 12 new moons of the year.
1941
23/1 318(VI):178 1941
23/2 318(VI):179
Distant view of empty sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Distant view of the Sundance lodge shortly after the dance is over.
1941
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Distant view of occupied sun dance lodge, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] This picture looks like it was taken on the "painting day" which is the most important day of the dance.
1941
23/4 318(VI):181 1941
23/5 318(VI):182
Dancers sitting around tree singing sacred songs during sunrise ceremony, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Sunrise Ceremony. At sunrise every morning of the dance, the dancers wake just before the sun rises and they greet it as it comes up. Then they sit down and sing four sacred songs that can never be changed. These songs were given to the people by a buffalo bull.
1941
23/6 318(VI):183
Dancers seated around center pole
[From Aaron Brien] Sunrise Ceremony.
undated
23/7 318(VI):184
Dancers seated around center pole
[From Aaron Brien] Sunrise Ceremony.
undated
23/8 318(VI):185
Crow sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
23/9 318(VI):186 1941
23/10 318(VI):187
Curing at Crow sun dance, Crow Agency
[From Aaron Brien] Doctoring day at Crow Agency sundance. This is done on the second day and the public is welcome to come and get prayed for.
August 1941
23/11 318(VI):188
Curing at sun dance
[From Aaron Brien] Doctoring day at Crow Agency sundance.
August 1941
23/12 318(VI):189 1941
23/13 318(VI):190
Dancers dancing to and from center pole
[From Aaron Brien] Dancing to the pole.
undated
23/14 318(VI):191
Dancers dancing to and from center pole
[From Aaron Brien] Dancing to the pole.
undated
23/15 318(VI):192
Dancers near center pole
[From Aaron Brien] Dancing to the pole.
undated
23/16 318(VI):193
John Truhujo doctoring Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo doctoring Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo doctoring Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
23/19 318(VI):196
Man watches as John Truhujo doctors Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo doctoring Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo doctoring Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo doctoring Charlie Horse at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo doctoring, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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John Truhujo in prayerful attitude after doctoring, Pryor, Montana
1941
23/25 318(VI):202 1941
23/26 318(VI):203 1941
23/27 318(VI):204
Old men at center pole, Pryor, Montana
1941
23/28 318(VI):205 1941
23/29 318(VI):206 1941
23/30 318(VI):207 1941
23/31 318(VI):208
People moving toward sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] I feel it is important to note that the Sundance is a public event and it is not uncommon for people to be spectating solely for the sake of watching.
undated
23/32 318(VI):209
Photo focused on male clothing at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] In this picture you can see the dancers sundance necklace. This is the dancers individual medicine "power." Many dancers wear them on the "medicine day."
1941
23/33 318(VI):210 1941
23/34 318(VI):211
Crowd at Crow sun dance
[From Aaron Brien] The reason for the big crowd at the entrance of the lodge is, this was the first sundance ever held at the agency of the reservation.
1941
23/35 318(VI):212
Tom Compton, Wind River Shoshoni, strengthening dancers, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
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Tom Compton, Wind River Shoshoni, strengthening dancers, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Tom Compton never did run a sundance on the Crow Reservation until 1942 and more than likely it was among the Pryor people. So the date on the description cannot be right.
1941
23/37 318(VI):214
Crow sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Truhujo praying for people, Crow Agency.
August 1941
23/38 318(VI):215
Crow sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Second Day of the Crow Agency sundance. On this day the public is welcome to come in and have the blessings of the lodge and the prayers of the sundance chief.
1941
23/39 318(VI):216 1941
23/40 318(VI):217 1941
23/41 318(VI):218 1941
23/42 318(VI):219
Crow sun dancers, Crow Agency, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Dancers being doctored.
1941
23/43 318(VI):220
Crow sun dance spectators, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
23/44 318(VI):221 undated
23/45 318(VI):222
Pete Lefthand on hill overlooking Crow encampment near Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Pete Left Hand overlooking sundance camp in Pryor, Montana.
June 18-24, 1941
23/46 318(VI):223
Pete Lefthand standing with Campbell Big Hail, Pryor, Montana
1941
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Pete Lefthand standing with Campbell Big Hail, Pryor, Montana
1941
23/48 318(VI):225
John Truhujo conferring with Crow coup strikers at sun dance, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
23/49 318(VI):226
Charlie Tenbear armed with coupstick for striking coup on the sun dance timbers, Crow Agency, Montana
1941
23/50 318(VI):227
Sun dance sweat lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Sundancers in shade. This is not a sweat lodge. This is just inside of the Sundance lodge and the sheets or blankets are up for shade during times of rest.
undated
23/51 318(VI):228
Resting after sunrise greeting, Shoshoni drum in foreground, Pryor, Montana
1941
23/52 318(VI):229
Blurred photo of sun dance, possibly sunrise ceremony
undated
23/53 318(VI):230
Jack Covers-up
[From Aaron Brien] Jack Covers up was a well-known Akbaaalahooniliia "One who talks load at groups" or "Camp Crier". He was from the Lodge Grass District.
undated
23/54 318(VI):231
Jack Covers-up and Little Nest at sun dance, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Jack Covers up (Lodge Grass) and Little Nest (Wyola), at Pryor sundance.
June 1941
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Jack Covers-up (Lodge Grass) and Little Nest (Wyola) speaking with sign language (Little Nest is deaf) at sun dance, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Jack Covers up (Lodge Grass) and Little Nest (Wyola), at Pryor sundance.
June 1941
23/56 318(VI):233
Jack Covers-up and Little Nest speaking sign language, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Jack Covers up (Lodge Grass) and Little Nest (Wyola), at Pryor sundance.
June 1941
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Little Nest posing, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Little Nest was the owner of a very well respected Rock Medicine Bundle. Known as "Iise-shoobaa" or "Four Faces". Now owned by his grandson Marvin Stewart.
1941
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Little Nest smoking to the sun before breakfast, Pryor, Montana
1941
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Little Nest smoking to the sun before breakfast, Pryor, Montana
1941
23/60 318(VI):237
Tobacco Lodge, Little Nest (L) smoking pipe
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Adoption Lodge "Ashchitchee". The Tobacco Society is a group of people whose job is to plant tobacco as a part of the revitalization of the Apsaalooke. One must be adopted into this society.
undated
23/61 318(VI):238
Tobacco lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Society Adoption Lodge "Ashchitchee". Inside view. From looking at this image it appears that the woman is being adopted into Baasshussuua "Tobacco Society". Baasshussheelaakbisuua "Tobacco Dance Adoption."
1939
23/62 318(VI):239
Tobacco lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Society Adoption Lodge "Ashchitchee". Inside view.
1939
23/63 318(VI):240
Tobacco lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Society Adoption Lodge "Ashchitchee". Inside view.
1939
23/64 318(VI):241
Tobacco lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Society Adoption Lodge "Ashchitchee". Inside view.
1939
23/65 318(VI):242
Tobacco lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Tobacco Society Adoption Lodge "Ashchitchee". Inside view. Second lady from left looks like Mabel Pretty on Top.
1939
23/66 318(VI):243
Hand game
1940
23/67 318(VI):244
Hand game, White Arm in center turned right, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Visiting White Arm.
1940
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Hand game, White Arm in center facing forward, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Visiting White Arm.
1940
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Hand game, White Arm in center, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] White Arm and Blake Whiteman to his right. Blake Whiteman was sometimes called Blake Packs the Hat.
1940
23/70 318(VI):247
White Arm, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] White Arm, Lodge Grass, Montana. Lodge Grass named a park after him. "White Arm Park"
1940
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Hand game, White Arm in center, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] White Arm playing hand game.
1940
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Hand game, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] White Arm and Jack Covers up to his far left.
1940
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Hand game, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Hand Game, Jack Covers Up. Jack Covers Up is sitting on the far left of the photo.
1941
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Hand game, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Hand Gamers posing.
1941
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Hand game participants
[From Aaron Brien] Singers after hand game, 1941. More than likely they are singing a victory song after winning the hand game.
undated
23/76 318(VI):253
Crow dancers, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Hot Dancers.
1941
23/77 318(VI):254
Crow fair, dancing fraternity and hand games, Pryor
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Hot Dancers and Drum Group.
1941
23/78 318(VI):255
Line of Crow dancers and small circle of men playing hand game, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Dancers waiting for the next song, with singers in foreground.
1941
23/79 318(VI):256 undated
23/80 318(VI):257
Honor dance and hand game, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Honor Dance following the Pryor sundance of William Big Day.
1941
24/1 318(VI):258
Dancers and hand game participants
[From Archives] Crow sundance. Start of dance around camp prior to give away dance ending the festivities. [From Aaron Brien] Start of Honor dance around camp prior to the "Give away." Pryor, Montana.
June 17-20, 1941
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Eddie Roundface signals a right hand call in a hand game, Frank Hawk leaning over, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Eddie Round Face and Frank Hawk playing hand game. Eddie Round Face Guesses to the right and Frank Hawk is leaning over.
1941
24/3 318(VI):260
Pete Lefthand with his son, Anthony
[From Aaron Brien] Pete Left Hand with his child Anthony Left Hand.
June 1941
24/4 318(VI):261
Unknown man
[From Aaron Brien] Unknown Apsaalooke man, wearing a "Reservation Hat" which was the style during the early 1900's.
undated
24/5 318(VI):262
Three unknown men mostly in traditional dress
[From Aaron Brien] Three unknown men. Do not appear to be Apsaalooke.
undated
24/6 318(VI):263
Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo parade
[From Aaron Brien] Sheridan Indian Days Parade.
July 1941
24/7 318(VI):264
Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo parade
[From Aaron Brien] Sheridan Indian Days Parade. Looks like Donnie Deer Nose.
July 1941
24/8 318(VI):265
Cheyenne Indians in Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo parade
[From Aaron Brien] Cheyenne Indians in Sheridan Indian Days Parade. Sheridan Wyoming.
July 1941
24/9 318(VI):266
Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo parade
[From Aaron Brien] Sheridan Indian Days Parade.
July 1941
24/10 318(VI):267
Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo parade
[From Aaron Brien] Sheridan Indian Days Parade.
July 1941
24/11 318(VI):268
Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo parade
[From Aaron Brien] Donnie Deer Nose, Col Tim McCoy and Supt, Robert Yellowtail. Sheridan Indian Days Parade.
July 1941
24/12 318(VI):269
Parade float
[From Aaron Brien] Sheridan Indian Days Parade.
July 1941
24/13 318(VI):270
American Indian Days, Sheridan, Wyoming or Billings, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Three Apsaalooke people on horseback near camp. The one on the far right looks like Amy or Agnes Yellow Tail. Also it appears to be at Crow Fair in Crow Agency, Montana.
1940
24/14 318(VI):271
 Voget's naming, St. Xavier, Montana
undated
24/15 318(VI):272
Katie Bear Below
undated
24/16 318(VI):273
Crow feast
circa 1939-1940
24/17 318(VI):274
Crow feast
circa 1939-1940
24/18 318(VI):275
Group enjoying outdoor meal, Lodge Grass, Montana
circa 1939-1940
24/19 318(VI):276
Cars and people, Lodge Grass, Montana
circa 1939-1940
24/20 318(VI):277
Unknown man giving away a horse
[From Aaron Brien] There are two copies of this photograph in the folder. One is labeled 'Jack Covers-up, herald, announcing gift of horses during giveaway.' The other is labeled 'Pete Lefthand giving away a horse,' but in 2015 Fred Lefthand stated this is not an image of his father, Pete Lefthand.
circa 1939-1940
24/21 318(VI):278
Women sporting goods for giveaway, Lodge Grass, Montana
circa 1940
24/22 318(VI):279
War lodge reconstructed
[From Aaron Brien] War lodge (Ashdaache) Reconstruction. Ashdaache "the lodge that leans." These are where warriors would stay during long extended war parties and raids.
circa 1939-1940
24/23 318(VI):280
Post office, Pryor, Montana
circa 1940s
24/24 318(VI):281
Hand game, Pryor, Montana
circa 1939-1940
24/25 318(VI):282
Hand game, Pryor, Montana
circa 1939-1940
24/26 318(VI):283
Hand game, Pryor, Montana
circa 1939-1940
24/27 318(VI):284
Hand game, Pryor, Montana
circa 1939-1940
24/28 318(VI):285
Crowd watching hand game
1939
24/29 318(VI):286
Summer shelter put up at Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Sweat lodge.
1939
24/30 318(VI):287
Crow sun dance
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Sundancer praying at the center pole.
September 1948
24/31 318(VI):288
Joe Hill curing
[From Aaron Brien] Joe Hill, the conductor of the sundance, doctoring a woman.
September 1948
24/32 318(VI):289
Jo Hill curing
September 1948
24/33 318(VI):290
At Crow sun dance
[From Aaron Brien] Joe Hill using an eagle bone whistle to "suck" the sickness out of woman.
September 1948
24/34 318(VI):291
Shoshoni in street clothes at center pole, Washikie, WY
1948
24/35 318(VI):292
Early stage in lodge construction, Washakie, WY
1948
24/36 318(VI):293
Middle stage of lodge construction, Washakie, WY
1948
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Constructing Shoshoni sun dance area, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Early medicine day of the sundance. Fort Washakie. On this day helpers come inside the lodge to put up what people call "stalls" and these are starting gate like door ways that each dancer stands in while dancing. Used to help keep you up during long day ahead.
August 1948
24/38 318(VI):295
Shoshoni sun dance lodge, seated people, Washakie, WY
1948
24/39 318(VI):296
View of sun dance lodge with drum in foreground and dancers in background, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Sundance chief praying at the center pole. Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
1948
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Shoshoni drum, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Warming up the drum. Fort Washakie Wyoming. The drum is commonly made from the hide of a elk, buffalo, or even cattle. This hide absorbs moisture very well, in doing so they lose their sound. This the reason they set the drum in the sun for long periods of time, to regain the sound.
1948
24/41 318(VI):298
Drum in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Down time in the lodge, with drum in foreground
undated
24/42 318(VI):299
Shoshoni dancers gathered around fire after sunrise greeting, Washakie, WY
1948
24/43 318(VI):300
Shoshoni dancers gathered around consecrated fire, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Sunrise Ceremony. Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
August 1948
24/44 318(VI):301 August 1948
24/45 318(VI):302
Shoshoni dancers pray to sun at sunrise, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Dancing the sun up, Fort Washakie Wyoming. This is the first step in the sunrise ceremony. Dancers are seated after the sun is completely up.
August 1948
24/46 318(VI):303
Shoshoni sun dance, Washakie, WY
1948
24/47 318(VI):304
Shoshoni dancer at center pole, Washakie, WY
1948
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Shoshoni dancer with woman and children at center pole, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Woman and children getting prayed for at center pole. Fort Washakie.
August 1948
24/49 318(VI):306
Shoshoni dancers and others at center pole, Washakie, WY
1948
24/50 318(VI):307
Shoshoni dancers with woman and other dancers at center pole, Washakie, WY
1948
24/51 318(VI):308
Shoshoni leaving sun dance area, Washakie, WY
1948
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Shoshoni dancers gathered, Washakie, WY
1948
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Distant view of Shoshoni sun dance lodge, Washakie, WY
1948
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Shoshoni dancers, Washakie, WY
[From Aaron Brien] Dancers being doctored at Waskakie sundance. The man leaning over is more than likely using an eagle wing fan to touch the dancers and give them strength.
August 1948
24/55 318(VI):312
Unidentified man, Washakie, WY
1948
24/56 318(VI):313
Lynn St. Clair, Washakie, WY
1948
24/57 318(VI):314
Tony Lajeunesse, Washakie, WY
1948
24/58 318(VI):315
Two unidentified men, Washakie, WY
1948
24/59 318(VI):316
Al Childs, Crow
[From Aaron Brien] Al Child in the mouth.
undated
24/60 318(VI):317
Paternal clansmen praying for dancers at end of sun dance, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Clan Fathers and Mothers praying for dancers at the end of the dance.
1975
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James Bear Below (r) and Ira Lefthand (l) at snack bar at sun dance, Lodge Grass, Montana
1975
24/62 318(VI):319
William Yellow Robe, Assiniboine, first recipient of Peter Lefthand Award
1986
24/63 318(VI):320
Feasting at sun dance giveaway, Melvin Lefthand, wife Gladys, and daughter
1987
24/64 318(VI):321
Sun dance giveaway
1987
24/65 318(VI):322
Hugh Little Owl, Ira and Melvin Left Hand, Clifford Whiteman, and Calvin Jefferson at giveaway following sun dance near Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
24/66 318(VI):323
Robert Yellowtail (L) and Tom Yellowtail (R) at sun dance giveaway
[From Aaron Brien] Robert Yellow Tail (Summer) and Tom Yellow Tail (Medicine Rock Chief) at sundance Give Away. Lodge Grass.
June 1987
24/67 318(VI):324
Heather and Fredrica Lefthand
1987
24/68 318(VI):325
Heather, Frederick, and Fredrica Lefthand
1987
24/69 318(VI):326
Fredrica at age 16, junior in high school
undated
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Fredrica Lefthand being crowned 1991-1992 Montana State University PowWow Princess
1991
24/71 318(VI):328
Tshirgi cattle driven down through Frederick's place
1986
24/72 318(VI):329
Feast for clan uncle by Agnes, wife of Anthony Lefthand
1987
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Feast for clan uncle by Agnes, wife of Anthony Lefthand
1987
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Crowd at feast for clan uncle by Agnes, wife of Anthony Lefthand
1987
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Returning to clan uncle feast after putting out fire set by young boys with firecrackers, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Unidentified group eating, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Grandchildren of Annie Bear Below
[From Aaron Brien] Grandchildren of Annie Bear Below?
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Modern Crow cradleboard, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
24/79 318(VI):336
Waiting for a turn at the giveaway, Frederick and Ira Lefthand in the middle
1987
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Frederick seated with a picture of his father above
[From Aaron Brien] Frederick Left Hand with a picture of his Father (Pete Lefthand) above.
1987
24/81 318(VI):338
Dexter Falls, Down and his wife
[From Aaron Brien] Dexter Falls Down and Magdaline Little Nest.
1986
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Dexter Falls Down Family, Crow
1986
24/83 318(VI):340
Anthony, Agnes, and family at the district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
24/84 318(VI):341
District championship arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] District Championship Arrow Throwing. Lodge Grass, Montana.
June 1987
24/85 318(VI):342
Action at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
24/86 318(VI):343 1987
24/87 318(VI):344
District arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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District arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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District arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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View of arrows thrown at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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View of arrows thrown at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Boy holding arrows at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Looks like Dean Don’t Mix.
1987
24/93 318(VI):350
Frederick Lefthand and Ralph Good Luck with drumstick
[From Aaron Brien] Ralph Good Luck (Duuptakaish Chiwaakuush, High Bald Eagle) and Fredrick Left Hand (Seizes the Living Bison Bull).
June 1987
24/94 318(VI):351
A future arrow thrower at junior arrow throw competition, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Spectators at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Group photo at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Lodge Grass District champion arrow throwing.
June 1987
24/97 318(VI):354
District team tents at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
24/98 318(VI):355
Setting up goal for district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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District arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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District arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Contestants getting ready at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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District arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Pryor district tent at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Frederick Lefthand at district arrow throw
[From Aaron Brien] Frederick Left Hand (Seizes the Living Bison Bull), Arrow Throwing tourney. Lodge Grass, Montana.
1987
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Judge's stand at district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
24/106 318(VI):363
Seeing who won at district arrow toss, Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] This last throw was to see who won the District arrow throwing.
June 1987
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Cottonwood trees along Little Big Horn near Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
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Location where peyotists get sand for altar, north of Lodge Grass, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Puuxkalachiliá Alasáthe (Sand Creek). Some peyote church members come here to get sand for their alters. North of Lodge Grass, Montana.
1987
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Jim Old Crow and others at Lodge Grass camp
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Catholic Church, Lodge Grass, Montana
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Church of Latter Day Saints
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25/1 318(VI):369
Catholic Church
[From Aaron Brien] Our Lady of Loretto Catholic Church, Lodge Grass, Montana.
undated
25/2 318(VI):370
Sign advertising sun dance
1987
25/3 318(VI):371
View of sun dance camp at Pryor, Montana
1986
25/4 318(VI):372
Sun dance at Pryor, Montana
1986
25/5 318(VI):373
Frederick Lefthand at sun dance, Pryor, Montana
[From Aaron Brien] Fredrick Lefthand (Seizes the Living Bison Bull) at Pryor sundance. Pryor, Montana.
July 1986
25/6 318(VI):374
Ira Lefthand at sign advertising Sioux "cutting" sun dance
[From Aaron Brien] Ira Lefthand's Crow name was" Chief Lazy." This name his dad Pete purchased from Dick Day Light.
1987
25/7
Some negative strips from sun dance giveaway and district arrow throw
1987
25/8
Negatives from district arrow throw photos, Lodge Grass, Montana
1987
photo_number
25/9 318(VI):375
Robert Yellowtail in traditional dress
[From Aaron Brien] Robert YellowTail (Biawakshash, summer)
undated
25/10 318(VI):376
Yellowtail Dam, Montana
July 18, 1987
25/11 318(VI):377 1940
25/12 318(VI):378
Teepee in far background
1940
25/13 318(VI):379
IXL Ranch, Tongue River Canyon, WY
1940
25/14 318(VI):380
Unknown landscape
1940
25/15 318(VI):381
Unknown landscape
[From Aaron Brien] Baahupuuo, shoot the rock. Commonly known as Castle rocks. These rocks are known to be the home of the "Little People." The story of the "Lost Boy and the Little People" explains this.
1940
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25/17 318(VI):383
Line of people and cars in distant background
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Unknown landscape featuring a lake
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Unknown landscape
1940
25/20 318(VI):386 undated
25/21 318(VI):387
View of down slope
1940
25/22 318(VI):388
Cottonwood trees
[From Aaron Brien] Two non-Indian children in grove of cottonwood trees.
1940
25/23 318(VI):389
View of semi-forested slopes
1940
25/24 318(VI):390
View of small hills above pasture
[From Aaron Brien] View of the Castle rocks. Pryor, Montana.
1940
25/25 318(VI):391
Cottonwood trees
1940
25/26 318(VI):392 1940
25/27 318(VI):393
Distant view of vehicle on dirt road
1940
25/28 318(VI):394
Cattle in rough pasture with mountains in background
[From Aaron Brien] Horse on rough pasture. Looks like the southern side of the Pryor Mountains.
1940
25/29 318(VI):395
Unknown landscape
1940
25/30 318(VI):396
Unknown landscape with sagebrush
1940
25/31 318(VI):397 1940
25/32 318(VI):398
Landscape
1940
25/33 318(VI):399
Landscape
1940
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Horse and barns
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House among trees
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Rock canyon
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Possible old fire pit
1940
25/38 318(VI):404 1940
25/39 318(VI):405 undated
25/40 318(VI):406
Man, woman, and children
1940
25/41 318(VI):407
Lodge Grass grade school staff (includes Fred Voget)
circa 1940-1941
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Unidentified man and woman, Boulder, Montana
1942
25/43 318(VI):409
Man standing by remnants of teepee ring
undated
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Man sitting by pile of stones
undated
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25/46 318(VI):412
Man in distance
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Bowl
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Top view of bowl
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Bowl
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25/50 318(VI):416
Bone and bead display
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Arrowheads
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Arrowheads
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Arrowheads
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Arrow or spear heads
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Arrow or spear heads
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Arrow or spear heads
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Arrow or spear heads
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25/58 318(VI):424
Arrow or spear heads
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Arrow or spear heads
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Arrow or spear heads
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25/61 318(VI):427
Arrow or spear heads
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Grinding stone
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25/63 318(VI):429
Ax heads
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Ax heads
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Ax head
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Stone artifacts
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Stone artifacts
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Saddle
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Saddle
[From Aaron Brien] Indian saddle from top view.
undated
25/70 318(VI):436
Stones with carved dates and locations
undated
25/71 318(VI):437
Bowl and possible jewelry
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25/72 318(VI):438
Beaded tomahawk pendant
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Beaded tomahawk pendant
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25/74 318(VI):440
Decorated and woven hide
[From Aaron Brien] Painted raw parfleche.
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25/75 318(VI):441
Constructing sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Inside view of sundance lodge. From what I see it looks like the last major event to happen in the sundance. When a dancer ask someone to come in the lodge and pray from them just before everyone walks out together.
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25/76 318(VI):442
People outside of sun dance lodge
undated
25/77 318(VI):443
Horse in foreground, crowd gathered for sun dance
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25/78 318(VI):444
Seated and walking groups
undated
25/79 318(VI):445
Children observing adult conversations
[From Aaron Brien] Give Away Ceremony, children in the foreground.
undated
25/80 318(VI):446
Men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men praying at the Center Pole.
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25/81 318(VI):447
Men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men praying at the Center Pole.
undated
25/82 318(VI):448
Men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men dancing in lodge.
undated
25/83 318(VI):449
Two men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Old woman being doctored at the center pole.
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25/84 318(VI):450
Men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men praying at the Center Pole. It is common for sundancers to pray while standing at the center pole. They pray to the creator for strength and also the for the reason they have decided to dance in the lodge.
undated
25/85 318(VI):451
Men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men dancing in the lodge.
undated
25/86 318(VI):452
Full view of center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men focused on the Center Pole while dancing. Many sundancers among the Apsaalooke are told "the Center Pole is everything you want in life, stay focused and always push through and you'll get it."
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25/87 318(VI):453
Men looking up at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Men focused on the Center Pole while dancing.
undated
25/88 318(VI):454 undated
25/89 318(VI):455
Men at center pole in sun dance lodge
[From Aaron Brien] Dancing to the pole.
undated
26/1 318(VI):456
Caughnawaga men, mostly steelworkers home for the weekend
undated
26/2 318(VI):457
Two men standing outside of Chief Poking Fire Indian Museum, Caughnawaga, Quebec, Ontaria
1950
26/3 318(VI):458
Chief Poking Fire compound, Caughnawaga, Quebec, Ontario
1950
26/4 318(VI):459
Chief Poking Fire Museum, Caughnawaga, Quebec, Ontario
1950
26/5 318(VI):460
Entrance of Chief Poking Fire Museum, Caughnawaga, Quebec, Ontario
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26/6 318(VI):461
Two-story house, Six Nations
undated
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Min Jamieson with Chow dogs, Six Nations
undated
26/8 318(VI):463
Min Jamieson in Indian dress
circa 1963
26/9 318(VI):464
George Jamieson, Barbara, and Dave Moses, Six Nations
undated
26/10 318(VI):465
Jo Martin, his wife Maggie, and nephew at Caughnawaga home
1967
26/11 318(VI):466
Jo Martin in front of Caughnawaga long home
undated
26/12 318(VI):467
Mohawk school, Six Nations, Oshweken, Ontario
undated
26/13 318(VI):468
Crypt of Joseph Brant near Brantford, Ontario
undated
26/14 318(VI):469
Grandchildren of Chief Deskahe
circa 1963
26/15 318(VI):470
Children of Dave and Barbara Moses, Six Nations
circa 1962
26/16 318(VI):471
Church where 1703 Queen Anne's plate is held, Six Nations, near Brandford, Ontario
circa 1962
26/17 318(VI):472
Church where 1703 Queen Anne's plate is held, Six Nations, near Brandford, Ontario
circa 1962
26/18 318(VI):473
Old barn and wagon, Six Nations, Oshweken, Ontario
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26/19 318(VI):474
Nellie Scott, Arapahoe, with two dogs
undated
26/20 318(VI):475
Elk trained by Nellie Scott, Arapahoe
undated
26/21 318(VI):476
Nellie Scott, Arapahoe, in traditional dress
1948
26/22 318(VI):477
Nellie Scott (L) in traditional dress standing with unidentified woman
undated
26/23 318(VI):478
Hungerian Imre Nag in Cheyenne Indian attire with son, David, 6 years old
1987
26/24 318(VI):479
Group of Hungerian Plains Indians, Imre Nag (center) conducting marriage ceremony
1983
26/25 318(VI):480
Photo of war lodge drawing
[From Aaron Brien] Photo of a War lodge (Ashdaache) drawing. In the Apsaalooke language the word Ashdaache means "the lodge that leans."
undated
26/26 318(VI):481
Photo of picture of defensive rifle pit
undated
26/27 318(VI):482
Unidentified crowd of people in front of church
circa 1950s
26/28 318(VI):483
Custer, two other white hunters, and Indian with grizzly bear carcass
[From Aaron Brien] Bloody Knife, General Custer and William Ludlow (far right) kill grizzly bear. Black Hills.
1874
26/29 318(VI):484
White Arm's camp at Sheridan, Colorado Historical Society photo
[From Aaron Brien] Apsaalooke Camp. This looks like a postcard of an early crow fair.
undated
26/30 318(VI):485
Postcard title "Crow Indian Village"
[From Aaron Brien] Post card of Ashdaache (War Lodge).
October 16, 1941
26/31 318(VI):486
Postcard of war lodge
undated
26/32 318(VI):487
Postcard of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill from photo originally taken in 1885
undated
26/33 318(VI):488
Postcard of Medicine Crow from photo originally taken in 1880
[From Aaron Brien] Medicine Crow (Paalatchiwaaxpaash or Sacred Raven.) War leader and Chief of the Kicked in the Belly Band of Apsaalooke.
undated
26/34 318(VI):489
Postcard of Swallow Bird, an Apsaroke Crow, from photo originally taken in 1908
undated
26/35 318(VI):490
Postcard of Crowchild, Shiptella, from photo originally taken in 1900
undated
26/36 318(VI):491
Postcard titled "How Custer Fell"
[From Aaron Brien] White Man Runs Him, Hairy Moccasin, Curly and Goes Ahead. Apsaalooke Scouts stand near the place of Custer's death.
1913
26/37 318(VI):492
Postcard of Sitting Bull from photo originally taken in 1864
undated
26/38 318(VI):493
Card of "Lone Tree," an Apsaroke Crow from photo originally taken in 1908
[From Aaron Brien] Post Card of "Long Tree," an Apsaalooke man.
undated
26/39 318(VI):494
Postcard of Edward Sheriff Curtis from photo taken in 1899
undated
26/40 318(VI):495
Postcard of Native American woman
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26/41 318(VI):496
Postcard titled "The Circle"
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26/42 318(VI):497
Postcard titled "Kilauea by Day"
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26/43 318(VI):498
Postcard titled "Respect for Elders"
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26/44 318(VI):499
Postcard of wagon train on rocky mountain road
undated
26/45 318(VI):500
Postcard of Crow Indians posed in traditional dress
undated
26/46 318(VI):501
Postcard of Crow Indian wearing traditional dress, mounted on horse
undated
26/47 318(VI):502
Postcard of teepee
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26/48 318(VI):503
Cartoon-style postcard titled "Out Where the West Remains"
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26/49 318(VI):504
Postcard of bison, brown and white
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26/50 318(VI):505
Postcard titled "Southern Peaks of Presidential Range from Mt. Washington
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26/51 318(VI):506
Postcard of "Crow Indians Firing into the Agency" by Frederic Remington
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26/52 318(VI):507
Postcard of "Geronimo and his Band Returning from a Raid in Mexico," by Frederic Remington
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26/53 318(VI):508
Postcard of "Suspicious Guests" drawn by Henry F. Farny
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26/54 318(VI):509
Postcard of Crow Fair
1989
26/55 318(VI):510
German postcard of possible native head dress
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26/56 318(VI):511
German postcard of brightly colored native artifact
undated
26/57 318(VI):512
Postcard of two present day soldiers' bronze statues
undated
26/58 318(VI):513
Crow butchering buffalo, negative only
circa 1970s
26/59 318(VI):514
Two unidentified boys on horseback
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26/59 318(VI):515
Bobby Bends and Joe Medicine Crow unloading a truck
undated
26/59 318(VI):516
Lizzie Yellowtail and others sitting outside
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26/59 318(VI):517
Women and children sitting outside
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26/59 318(VI):518
Man and four children outside by fence
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26/59 318(VI):519
Man leaning on fence
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26/59 318(VI):520
House or cabin with clothesline in foreground
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26/59 318(VI):521
Donnie Deernose, Agnes Yellowtail, and their adopted son, Duane Bends
circa 1950s
26/59 318(VI):522
Lodge Grass, Montana street with Baptist Church in background
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26/59 318(VI):523
View of mountain peaks with snow
undated
26/59 318(VI):524
View of building
undated
26/59 318(VI):525
View of house in trees with car passing
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26/59 318(VI):526
View of building
undated
26/59 318(VI):527
View of urban house in trees
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26/59 318(VI):528
View of building
undated
26/59 318(VI):529
Man and woman seated on sofa
undated
26/59 318(VI):530
Cedric Walks Over Ice and boy standing outside
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26/59 318(VI):531
Man seated in armchair
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26/59 318(VI):532
View of church
undated
26/59 318(VI):533
Religious painting with priest on left
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26/60 318(VI):534
Man in shadow, house in background
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26/60 318(VI):535
Man in shadow, house in background
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26/60 318(VI):536
Man in shadow, house in background
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26/60 318(VI):537
Chokecherries drying
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26/60 318(VI):538
Unloading buffalo from stock trucks
circa 1973
26/60 318(VI):539
Kitchen crew in buffalo pasture
circa 1973
26/60 318(VI):540
People by tents
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26/60 318(VI):541
Vehicles in deep shadow
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26/60 318(VI):542
Marshall, Melvin, Frederick, and Anthony Left Hand standing by truck with Everett Whiteman
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View of houses from hill
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View of houses from hill
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26/60 318(VI):545
Distant view of man herding small number of cattle
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26/60 318(VI):546
Black Canyon Youth Camp
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Black Canyon Youth Camp
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Black Canyon Youth Camp
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26/60 318(VI):549
Peter Plenty Hawk standing by truck
undated
26/60 318(VI):550
Clothesline with unidentified objects in front of house
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Partially constructed sun dance lodge
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Tarp/covered pile in fenced enclosure
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26/60 318(VI):553
Lodge Grass High School
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Older man and woman, both with braids, in front of house
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26/61 318(VI):555
Older man and woman, both with braids, in front of house
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26/61 318(VI):556
Older man with braids, seated
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Overexposed photo of man and woman in front of house
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Two men seated on bench
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26/61 318(VI):559
Woman typing
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26/61 318(VI):560
Woman typing
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26/61 318(VI):561
Blackfeet tribal office
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26/61 318(VI):562
Blackfeet tribal office
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26/61 318(VI):563
Cabin with trees in background
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Distant view of house
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26/61 318(VI):565
View of building
undated
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View of downtown street
undated
26/61 318(VI):567
View of dirt road with houses
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View of building
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View of street
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Man standing in front of doorway
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Man and woman in front of tent and car
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Three small children in front of house
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Man on tractor
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Man and woman on dirt path
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Man on dirt path
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Woman on dirt path
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26/62 318(VI):577
View of small houses
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Man standing near stone monument
undated
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Station wagon in front of house
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Small house
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View of distant houses
undated
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View of distant houses
undated
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View of building with some snow
undated
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Woman leaving downtown building
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Four children in front of houses
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View of downtown street
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26/63 318(VI):587
Man in front of museum-type wall display
undated
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Man in front of museum-type wall display
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26/63 318(VI):589
Seated man taking notes
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Seated man taking notes
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Man at record player
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Man at record player
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Logs in front of shed
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Logs by shed
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Man on tractor
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Man on tractor
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Boys seated by pulley or winch
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Pile of scrap lumber
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Man posed by building
undated
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View of cabin at Pryor, Montana
undated
26/63 318(VI):601
William Big Day and his wife by house by house in Pryor, Montana
undated
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Teepee frame at Pryor, Montana
undated
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Man in front of stone monument
undated
26/63 318(VI):604
Cattle in pasture
undated
26/63 318(VI):605
Little Big Horn Battlefield, Montana
undated
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Little Big Horn Battlefield, Montana
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Three children
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Bends family
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Man with three children
undated
26/64 318(VI):610
Adlow Harris and children
undated
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Joe Medicine Crow
undated
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John Whiteman and Amy with the Fritterer brothers in front of house
undated
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Small boy
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Three children
undated
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Man seated on sofa
undated
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Priest standing by small boy
undated
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Adlow Harris with baby and two children
undated
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Woman on swing set
undated
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Seated man
undated
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Five unidentified adults
undated
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Man and woman in traditional Native American attire
undated
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Children in truck
undated
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House and shed
undated
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Row of houses
undated
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Church
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Building
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Residential street
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Trees
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Parade float
circa 1950s
26/65 318(VI):630
House and barn in the distance
undated
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Houses in the distance
undated
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Houses
undated
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Joe Blaine, Matthew Good Luck, Steve Bird, Herbert Blanc, and Josephine Gets Down drumming
undated
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Man with child in stroller
undated
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Man holding child
undated
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Boy and toddler
undated
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Man and boy
undated
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Four children
undated
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Five children
undated
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Two men in shadow, seated in front of blackboard
undated
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Audience in shadow
undated
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Three people seated at desk
undated
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Three people seated at desk
undated
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Audience
undated
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House
undated
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House
undated
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Men standing outside of building
undated
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Large white house
undated
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Small yellow house
undated
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Arrow throw competition
undated
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Arrow throw competition
undated
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Five adults posed in front of store
undated
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Two people on horseback visiting with two other people
undated
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Clara Bends, Agnes Yellowtail, Feral Ease, Bill Ease, and three children posed in front of Crow Indian Baptist Mission
undated
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White house with fence
undated
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Two people on horseback visiting with woman and two children
undated
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Boy
undated
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Log house
undated
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Two women seated on bench
undated
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Distant view of truck, corrals, and shed
undated
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Two men on horseback and three cars
undated
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Castle Rocks, Pryor, Montana
undated
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Man by loaded truck
undated
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Tarp covered mound
undated
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Crow Agency BIA
undated
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People seated in shadow
undated
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Teepee and tent
undated
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Man on porch in shadow
undated
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Man in front of small house
undated
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Man in front of porch
undated
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Man in field by gray house
undated
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Man in field by gray house
undated
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Crow sun dance preparatory dance, Tom Yellowtail, medicine man, and Thomas Lion Shows, sponsor
1975
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Praying and singing over center pole before raising
1975
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Veteran Joe Blaine marking pole with charcoal
1975
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Dancer in traditional Crow sun dance attire
undated
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Marshall and Ira Lefthand
circa 1976
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Three Crow boys on horses
1975
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Six Nations band
undated
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Spear Siding above Lodge Grass, Montana
undated
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Poles for dance stalls, Crow sun dance
1975
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People gathered inside sun dance lodge
1975
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Man in street clothes seated in lodge
1975
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Overexposed view inside sun dance lodge
1975
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Joe Alden, Retard Carter, and others at sunrise service on last day
1975
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Overexposed view of people inside sun dance lodge
1975
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Overexposed view of people inside sun dance lodge
1975
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Overexposed view of people inside sun dance lodge
1975
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People entering sun dance lodge
1975
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Sun dancers getting soup and soda pop after dance
1975
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Sun dancer in front of car
1975
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Man seated in shadow
1975
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People outside sun dance lodge
1975
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People standing and seated by car
undated
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People outside of sun dance lodge
undated
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John Truhujo standing in front of tents
undated
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James Bear Below and Gladys Ann Littleness seated under canopy
undated
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People around table by white house
undated
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Janice Old Crow with child in river
undated
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Three children in Little Big Horn River
undated
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Child in Little Big Horn River
undated
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Janice Old Crow rinsing pants in Little Big Horn River
undated
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Frederick Left Hand and three children in Little Big Horn River
undated
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Four children in Little Big Horn River
undated
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One person in Little Big Horn River
undated
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Boy riding bareback
undated
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Truck by portable outhouse
undated
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Boy and horse in front of rickety cabin
undated
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Two men and two horses, one man shoeing horse
undated
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Man shoeing horse
undated
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Crow Fair arena with bucking bull in center
undated
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Crow Fair arena with racing horses coming in on far side
undated
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Crow Fair arena with racing horse coming in on far side
undated
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Crow Fair arena with bucking bull in center
undated
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Sunset shot with Wolf Mountains in very distant background
undated
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Sunset shot with Wolf Mountains in very distant background
undated
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Very distant shot of fire at treetop level
undated
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Very distant shot of fire at treetop level
undated
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Yellow robe, first recipient of Pete Lefthand Award
undated
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Sunset shot by water
undated
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Statue of man and horse in Cody, Wyoming
undated
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Gathering of people in shadows
undated
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Joe Medicine Crow
undated
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Man, woman, and boy in foreground
undated
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Santa Maria
undated

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Subject Terms

  • Blackfeet Indians
  • Crow Indians--Photographs
  • Crow Indians
  • Crow Indians--Rites and ceremonies
  • Crow language
  • Indians of North America
  • Iroquois Indians
  • Shoshoni Indians
  • Siksika Indians

Form or Genre Terms

  • Photographs

Occupations

  • Anthropologists--United States
  • Ethnologists--United States