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| Frontispiece | |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from a portrait by Samuel Lawrence in 1854 | |
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| Contents | |
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| Indian dog | |
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| Indian flute, Cheyenne | |
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| Introductory Note | |
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| Deer | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shuh-shuh-gah, blue heron | |
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| Fox | |
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| Grouse | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Headdress, Pawnee | |
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| Deer | |
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| Baby basket | |
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| War club | |
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| Blackfoot moccasin, green | |
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| The Peace-Pipe | |
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| All the tribes beheld the signal, Saw the distant smoke ascending | |
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| Landscape, Rocky Mountains | |
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| Calumet and fire-bag | |
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| Fire stick | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Hatchet and fire-bag, Sioux | |
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| Hand | |
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| Shell hatchet, antique | |
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| Fire-bag | |
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| Headdress | |
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| Blackfoot war shirt | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Calumet | |
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| The Four Winds | |
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| Like a ghost that goes at sunrise He beheld a maiden walking | |
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| River-bank | |
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| Decorated buffalo skin | |
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| Bear | |
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| Bear | |
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| Tomahawk | |
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| Legging and moccasin | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Snow-shoe | |
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| Blackfoot legging | |
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| Bow and arrows | |
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| Shield and lance | |
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| Pipe | |
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| Woman's belt | |
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| War shirt | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Hiawatha's Childhood | |
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| Then, upon one knee uprising, Hiawatha aimed an arrow | |
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| Indian camp | |
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| Coup-stick stone shrunken on rawhide | |
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| Boy, ideal sketch | |
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| Snake Indian papoose basket, buffalo hide | |
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| Pottery, antique | |
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| War club and arrows | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Papago jug | |
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| Shield | |
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| Bow and arrow, war and hunting | |
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| Boy | |
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| Spear and tomahawk | |
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| Shield and spear | |
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| Headdress | |
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| Owl | |
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| Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis | |
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| Glared like Ishkoodah, the comet, Like the star with fiery tresses | |
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| Caribou | |
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| Bow, arrows, and tomahawk | |
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| Mittens | |
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| Comanche legging | |
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| Moccasin, antique | |
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| Lance and shield | |
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| Prehistoric Indian axe, walrus tusk, and flint arrow-head | |
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| Axe, N. W. tribes | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Axe | |
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| Knife sheath, Blackfoot | |
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| Flamingo | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Knapsack | |
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| Axe and quiver, Huron or Mohawk | |
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| Wicker olla, Apache | |
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| Ute shirt | |
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| "Shank" moccasin, Mohawk | |
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| Hiawatha's Fasting | |
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| And he saw a youth approaching, Dressed in garments green and yellow | |
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| In the forest | |
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| Tomahawk | |
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| Bead ornament | |
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| Wild pigeon | |
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| Indian boy | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Prehistoric hoe and knife | |
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| Raven | |
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| Maple leaf | |
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| Elm leaf | |
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| Fire-bag | |
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| Bead ornament | |
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| Knife, sheath, and arrows | |
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| Tomahawks | |
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| Indian brave | |
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| Antique mortar and pestle | |
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| Hiawatha's Friends | |
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| Pitched it sheer into the river ... Where it still is seen in Summer | |
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| Landscape | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Woman's shirt | |
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| Stone hatchet, antique | |
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| Broken lance | |
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| Fish-hook, stone axe, antique | |
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| Spear | |
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| A Blackfoot brave | |
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| Hand | |
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| Buffalo, from photograph taken from life | |
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| Hiawatha's Sailing | |
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| Thus the birch canoe was builded ... In the bosom of the forest | |
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| Birch canoe | |
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| Elm leaf | |
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| Scalping knife and sheath | |
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| Moqui club | |
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| Birch-bark vessel | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Awl bag, Apache | |
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| Common Apache buckskin shirt, green and yellow | |
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| Iroquois bark vessel | |
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| Necklace | |
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| Porcupine | |
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| Hiawatha's Fishing | |
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| Long sat waiting for an answer | |
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| Landscape | |
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| Spear | |
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| Fish-hooks, common to northwest coast | |
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| Pack basket | |
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| Squirrel | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Legging | |
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| Rawhide and stone club | |
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| Earthen cooking pot | |
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| Knife in sheath | |
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| Hammer, antique | |
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| Mexican Indian olla, Yaqui | |
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| Canoe | |
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| Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather | |
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| Then began the greatest battle That the sun had ever looked on | |
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| Wood scene | |
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| War bonnet, Sioux | |
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| Warrior, painted | |
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| War clubs, antique | |
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| Modoc bow and arrow | |
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| Headdress, medicine | |
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| War club | |
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| Buffalo bow | |
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| Blackfoot war shirt | |
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| Shield, quiver, and weapons | |
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| Shield | |
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| Woodpecker | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Eagle | |
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| Dressed scalp and earring | |
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| Pipe and pouch | |
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| Hatchet, trader's | |
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| Hiawatha's Wooing | |
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| "I will follow you, my husband!" | |
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| Falls of Minnehaha, after an old photograph | |
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| Bow and quiver, Blackfoot | |
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| Winter legging, buffalo | |
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| Lipari, Apache | |
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| Bone tool for arrow-making | |
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| Bone tool for arrow-making | |
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| Quiver, Yuma Apache | |
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| Arrow, knife, and scalp | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Gourd for drinking | |
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| Apache headdress | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Deer | |
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| Headdress | |
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| Camp kettle | |
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| Hiawatha's Wedding Feast | |
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| Through the shadows and the sunshine, Treading softly like a panther | |
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| Landscape | |
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| Necklace | |
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| Buffalo horn spoon | |
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| Pipe head | |
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| Wooden bowl, antique | |
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| shirt | |
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| Pipe | |
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| Snow-shoe | |
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| Bracelet, Wolpi | |
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| Fan of feathers, belonging to Crowfoot, head chief of Blackfeet | |
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| Brave | |
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| Lacrosse stick | |
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| Panther | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Rawhide cradle, Apache | |
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| Headdress, Medecius | |
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| The Son of the Evening Star | |
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| And her lovers, the rejected, ... Handsome men with paint and feathers | |
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| Lake view | |
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| Pipe, tomahawk, and fire-bag | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Decoration on fur robe | |
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| Ute earring | |
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| Arm and hand | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Landscape | |
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| Shell spoon | |
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| Earthen vessel | |
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| Tomahawk | |
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| Spoon, antique | |
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| Bear-claw necklace | |
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| Necklace | |
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| Quiver, Sioux | |
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| Chippeway cradle | |
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| Bow case, Sioux | |
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| Spear, knife, and arrows | |
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| Cheyenne moccasin | |
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| Headdress | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Medicine tom-tom | |
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| Ute moccasin | |
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| Blessing the Cornfields | |
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| 'T was the women who in Autumn Stripped the yellow Husks of harvest | |
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| Tepee or lodge | |
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| Deer | |
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| Brave | |
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| Moccasin | |
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| Wooden comb | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Hoe | |
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| Stone mortar and pestle for grain | |
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| Nootka Sound knife, flint | |
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| Mohawk warrior | |
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| War club | |
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| Stone head coupstick | |
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| Brave | |
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| Indian corn | |
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| Earring | |
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| Stone and bear-claw necklace | |
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| Bracelet | |
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| Earring | |
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| Stone "metat" for grinding corn | |
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| Picture Writing | |
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| Such as these the shapes they painted On the birch-bark and the deer-skin | |
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| Forest scene | |
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| "Webajabe," used in dressing hides | |
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| Shirt, Blackfoot | |
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| Brave | |
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| Totem | |
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| Hand | |
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| Fire-bag, Blackfoot or Shoshone | |
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| Indian sign drawing | |
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| Indian drawing of a turtle | |
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| Indian drawing | |
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| Indian drawing | |
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| Dressing buffalo robe | |
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| Old-time knife | |
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| "Weubaja" or hide dresser, common on buffalo range | |
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| Indian sign drawing, Sioux | |
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| A Plains Indian grave, tree burial | |
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| Hiawatha's Lamentation | |
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| "I can blow you strong, my brother, I can heal you, Hiawatha!" | |
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| Pine trees | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Legging and moccasin | |
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| Wolf | |
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| Snow-shoe | |
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| Brave, Apache | |
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| Blackfoot medicine bonnet | |
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| Gourd rattle | |
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| Tom-tom | |
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| Medicine or ceremonial rattle, a gourd, Comanche | |
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| Medicine or totem bag | |
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| Deer's antlers | |
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| Trader's hatchet | |
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| Brave | |
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| Pau-Puk-Keewis | |
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| All the old men and the young men,... Played till midnight, played till morning | |
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| Indian camp | |
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| Medicine man's wand | |
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| War club | |
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| Mohawk shell beads | |
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| Scalping-knife and sheath | |
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| Pottery, antique | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Fire-bag of Crowfoot, head chief of Blackfeet | |
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| Pipes | |
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| Antique vase, Tennessee | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Ute fan | |
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| Winter coat | |
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| War club | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Gull | |
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| The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis | |
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| Thorough bush, and brake, and forest, Ran the cunning Pau-Puk-Keewis | |
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| Birch-trees | |
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| Tomahawk and knife | |
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| Moccasin, Pawnee | |
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| Legging | |
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| Brave | |
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| Beaver | |
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| Squaw legging, Cheyenne | |
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| Moccasin | |
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| Headdress, Sioux | |
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| War club, Winnebago | |
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| Stone hammer antique, restored | |
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| Wolf's head mask | |
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| Shirt | |
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| Blackfoot war club | |
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| Wild goose, "Wawa" | |
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| Shield, Apache, "medicine" or religious | |
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| Kioway moccasin | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Headdress | |
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| War club | |
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| Shield, Sioux | |
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| War club | |
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| The Death of Kwasind | |
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| Sideways fell into the river, Plunged beneath the sluggish water | |
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| Moose head | |
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| Blackfoot head, idealized | |
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| Axe, antique | |
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| Headdress, moccasin, and apron | |
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| Knife in sheath | |
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| A dressed scalp | |
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| Brave | |
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| Sioux tomahawk | |
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| Fallen trees | |
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| The Ghosts | |
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| Sat down in the farthest corner Crouching low among the shadows | |
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| In the spruce forest | |
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| Apache moccasin | |
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| Rawhide, double ball, used in game like "hockey," | |
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| An old Apache woman | |
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| Knife sheath | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Parfleche or buffalo meat bag, rawhide | |
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| Deer's horn | |
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| Wampum | |
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| Tree graves | |
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| Wampum | |
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| Old brave | |
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| Pottery | |
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| White Mountain Apache shirt, buckskin | |
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| The Famine | |
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| There he sat down, still and speechless, ... At the feet of Laughing Water | |
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| Plains Indian grave | |
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| Coyote | |
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| Squaw | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Quiver and bow | |
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| Warrior | |
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| Tomahawk | |
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| Legging and moccasin | |
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| Bowstring guard for wrist | |
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| Sioux squaw's mantle, white bead work | |
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| Comanche moccasin | |
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| Indian chair or lounge | |
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| Wooden dish, very old form | |
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| The White Man's Foot | |
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| "Sit here by the dying embers, Let us pass the night together." | |
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| Pipe head | |
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| Paddle | |
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| Omaha calumet | |
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| Image | |
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| Headdress, horsehair | |
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| Sword and club | |
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| Shield | |
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| Bow case and quiver | |
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| Cheyenne moccasin | |
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| Papago olla | |
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| Helmeted soldier | |
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| Old blunderbuss, bow, and arrow | |
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| Gun case, Blackfoot, buffalo hide and beads | |
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| Colonial head | |
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| Trader's head | |
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| Hiawatha's Departure | |
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| Came the Black-Robe chief, ... the Pale-face With his guides and his companions | |
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| River-view | |
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| Pipe, arrow, and lance | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Shield | |
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| Headdress | |
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| Willow basket | |
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| Priest's head | |
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| Shirt | |
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| Priest | |
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| Birch-bark vessel | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Medicine spear | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Ideal head | |
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| Medicine wand | |
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| Wild ducks | |
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| Vocabulary and Notes | |
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| War club | |
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| Ornament, antique | |
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| Quijo, or carrying basket, Papago | |
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| Hunter's cabin, Witch Bay, Cranberry Lake | |
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| Mask, ceremonial, Papago, wood and horsehair | |
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| Riding-whip or quirt | |
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| Packing bag, decorated for a horse, Blackfoot | |
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| Whip | |
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| Pack | |
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| Baby basket | |
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| A Blackfoot squaw saddle | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Fiddle, Apache | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Trader's hatchet, Kioway | |
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| Elk-horn riding-whip | |
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| Tom-tom | |
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| Buffalo skull | |
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| Pottery | |
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| Grooved stone axe | |
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| Cheyenne elk-horn saddle | |
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| Gourd drinking-cup | |
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| Water jug, Zuni, uneven in shape | |
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| Cheyenne baby basket | |
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| Ideal head | |
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| Calumet or peace-pipe | |
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| Publisher's Aftererword | |
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| Chippeway baby basket | |