GILBERT L. WILSON:

An Inventory of His Photography Collection at the Minnesota Historical Society

Sound and Visual Collection

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Creator:Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930.
Title:Gilbert Livingstone Wilson photography collection.
Dates:1906-1919.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Views photographed by Gilbert L. Wilson of the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians at Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota when Wilson gathered data on Indian cultures for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Nearly all of these photographs appear in the photograph album, volume 44, of the Gilbert L. and Frederick N. Wilson papers. Images are printed from the original negatives.
Quantity:1106 photoprints: black and white; 5 x 7 inches and smaller.
Location:I.63: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions:

Photograph collection is the joint intellectual property of the Minnesota Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History (New York). The right to publish these materials in any form depends on permission being given by both institutions. Therefore, assent in writing by the Minnesota Historical Society to a request to publish must be followed by assent in writing from the American Museum of Natural History.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Gilbert Livingstone Wilson Photography Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Processing Information:

Processed by: Nancy Erickson, July 1992.

Catalog ID number: 990016669580104294


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

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I.63A - 1Strands of hair worn by Hidatsa.
A-3 - A-5Turtle stones collected by J. D. Allen from a Mandan site.
A-6 - A-7Wolf Chief's father's feather case and arrow-making kit.
A - 8Wolf Chief's father's feather case and arrow-making kit open to show contents.
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I.63LXXIIGood Voice and Old Blossom playing plum stone game.
LXXIVGood Voice and Old Blossom playing plum stone game.
LXXVEagle Woman doing quill work.
LXXVIIIGood Voice and Old Blossom playing plum stone game.
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I.63126Wolf Chief's earth lodge.
128Wolf Chief's earth lodge.
129Wolf Chief's earth lodge interior.
130Wolf Chief's earth lodge interior showing a shrine with two animal skulls and a medicine bag.
131Portrait of Wolf Chief, his wife, Strikes Many Women, and their baby, Paul.
132Portrait of Goodbird, Sioux Woman, Dora (14), Jennie (11), Alfred (8), Isabel (5), and Benjamin (3).
134Portrait of Son of a Star and Buffalo Bird Woman.
135Portrait of Son of a Star and Buffalo Bird Woman with their son, Goodbird.
137Goodbird with a fish trap.
138Short Bull's camp at dinnertime with views of his family and James Baker.
144View of William Bell, James Baker, and Gilbert L. Wilson.
146Expedition group with C. A. Shultis, Mrs. Shultis, the two Shultis children, Miss McKenzie, Fred Wilson, and Gilbert L. Wilson with horses and a cart.
148James Baker, a Hidatsa with his Mandan wife and their child.
152Butterfly's tent, on of the largest seen by Wilson.
153James Baker, a Hidatsa with his Mandan wife and their child.
168Mrs. Kidney.
173View of camp at mission house with Fred, Steinbreuck and an unidentified Indian boy.
174Gilbert L. Wilson and two Indian boys riding near mission house.
175Boy on horse near mission house camp.
Image is not in album in the manuscript collection.
176Portrait of Goodbird's first wife, Sweet Grass, Dora (Wolf Woman), and Dan.
180Wolf Chief.
189Mission house.
191Wolf Chief's earth lodge interior showing the shrine.
192View of Wolf Chief's shrine and medicine bag.
193Woman using corn mortar in Wolf Chief's earth lodge.
194 - 195Mrs. James Baker using a corn mortar in Wolf Chief's earth lodge.
196White Owl with his daughter who preferred to not be photographed.
197Unidentified Indian and pony.
200White Owl with his daughter who preferred to not be photographed.
206Buffalo skull by Son of a Star's cabin.
208View of a sweat lodge frame with a drying stage in the rear and a rake to handle hot stones.
209Fred Wilson and Lewis Baker's son with view of James Baker's cabin and drying shed in the distance.
210Drying stage near Jim Baker's cabin.
213Lewis Baker and his children.
214Two boys outside Wolf Chief's cabin.
215Indian boy outside Wolf Chief's cabin.
218William Bell and family.
224Buffalo Bird and Son of Star outside their son Edward Goodbird's cabin.
225Buffalo Bird and Son of Star, Edward Goodbird's parents.
226Buffalo Bird and Son of Star with their son, Edward Goodbird.
227Buffalo Bird and Son of Star outside their son Edward Goodbird's cabin.
228Son of Star sitting in a chair.
229Buffalo Bird and Son of Star, Edward Goodbird's parents.
241The bottom land along the Missouri River.
242A settler's home near Washburn.
243View of a sod house.
252Rotary plow on a train near Langdon, North Dakota.

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I.63I-1A Fourth of July event at Camp Little Missouri.
I-2People heading to a dance and a crier heading to a booth, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-3 - I-5People heading to a dance, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
Image I-4 is not in album in the manuscript collection.
I-7Entrance to the dancing booth, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-8 - I-9Construction detail of the dance booth, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-10Group of men and children, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-11Group of people, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-12Group of women seated under umbrellas, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-13Group of seated older men, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-14View of Camp Little Missouri before the old men's race, July 4.
I-15 - I-19Men waiting for the old men's race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-20At the start of the old men's race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-21Participants running in the old men's race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-22 - I-23View of the scene after the old men's race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-24 - I-27Folks heading home after the old men's race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
Image I-27 is not in album in the manuscript collection.
I-28Old men's race contestant with cloth head covering and a feather fan, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-29The starting line of the boys' race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-30Contestants running in the boys' race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-31View of tipi, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-32Close-up of a handmade broom, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-33Men sitting in a circle waiting for the pony race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-34 - I-35Distant view of the pony races, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-36Contestants and their ponies after the pony race, Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-37 - I-38View of tents and tipis at Camp Little Missouri, July 4.
I-39Spotted Rabbit skinning some meat.
I-40Evening scene on the Missouri River, July.
I-41Mrs. Walks and baby.
I-42 - I-43Mrs. Walks with baby and other unidentified people in Crow's Heart's Lodge which has views of the fireplace and support beams.
I-44 - I-45Dancers, many in traditional dress, dancing in the arbor.
I-46 - I-50Views of the Moccasin Game.
I-52 - I-54Hiding the "button" and waiting for the guess during the Moccasin Game.
I-55Flies Away Boy outside the dance arbor in Elbowood, July 4.
I-56 - I-64Various views of the dance arbor interior including dancers and observers, July 4.
I-65The gift pony which is given for recovery from illness.
I-66Wolf Chief, his wife Strikes Many Women, and three children in front of a tent.
I-67Wolf Chief's family with a puppy.
I-68 - I-69Goodbird with a bullboat inside Crow's Heart's lodge.
I-70 - I-71Long Tail getting dressed for a photograph.
I-72Long Tail with his daughter, Edna Smith, and Ms. Smith's sister.
I-73Wolf Chief's daughters asleep in a tent.
I-74View of the camp from the buttes which show a circle of tipis and tents with a meeting house in the center.
I-75View of Indians bring brush to camp to be used for shade.
I-76Going to the dance.
I-77Mrs. Wolf Chief taking care of one-year-old Paul Wolf Chief.
I-78 - I-79Paul Wolf Chief sitting in the grass.
I-80Four men watching Paul Wolf Chief sitting in the grass.
I-81Women chanting over Tug War.
I-82Little boy in leggings taken home by his mother.
I-83A girl exiting her tent.
I-84Medicine Stone and her family in front of a tent.
I-85Medicine Stone's little boy dressed in leggings, shirt, moccasins, and a necklace.
I-86Young woman drying meat on a small rack over a fire.
I-87A camp scene during a hot July afternoon that shows brush being used for shade.
I-88 - I-93Various views of Buffalo Paunch, Lance Owner, and daughter in and around the camp.
I-94Unidentified woman carrying wood on her back.
I-95Looking out of Long Tail's tent with view of quilts on the floor.
I-96View of Packs Wolf and his sons wearing eagle headdresses.
I-97View of Packs Wolf with his wife and Nora Smith in full traditional dress featuring breastplates, cowrie shells, fringed blankets and carved wood fans.
I-98 - I-99Evening scene of the camp taken around 6:30 p.m.
I-100Wolf Chief's child, Paul Wolf Chief.
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I.63II-2Unidentified Indian sleeping in Foolish Woman's tent with the tent cover raised for air.
II-3 - II-5Foolish Woman and Mrs. Foolish Bear in full traditional dress with wooden fans at the Fourth of July camp.
II-6Ben Benson and children standing in front of tipi. 2 copies.
II-7 - II-9Black Chest and family in full traditional dress.
II-10Meat drying on a fire while man puts on leggings in preparation for a dance and family in tent watches.
II-11Gilbert L. Wilson with Wolf Chief's wife and child.
II-12Frank Little Eagle dressed in war bonnet, breastplate, leggings, and blanket.
II-13 - II-19Goodbird putting a bullboat in the water and demonstrating how to paddle.
II-19bGoodbird's portrait.
II-20 - II-29Goodbird and passenger demonstrating how to paddle a bull boat.
II-30Old woman and child at the schoolhouse.
II-31View of the creek where a pocket net was set.
II-32 - II-34Mr. Shultis drawing in the pocket net with fish. 2 copies of II-34.
II-35Tobacco hanging in Wolf Chief's earth lodge.
II-36Bullboat stored in Jim Baker's lodge.
II-37Interior view of Jim Baker's lodge.
II-38View of Wolf Chief praying.
II-39 - II-55Numerous views of Wolf Chief praying before a medicine shrine, a Two Skulls bundle both opened and unopened, and close-ups of buffalo stones and a pipe.
II-56Exterior view of Jim Baker's lodge.
II-57Exterior view of Wolf Chief's cabin.
II-58View of Wolf Chief in his cabin smoking a pipe.
II-59Exterior view of Wolf Chief's earth lodge.
II-60Portrait of Wolf Chief.
II-62 - II-64Collection of objects purchased for George Heye displayed on buffalo skin.
II-65Pair of leggings and an eagle wing fan.
II-66A buffalo robe from the George Heye collection.
II-67 - II-72Wolf Chief's "grandson" modeling an eagle feather headdress purchased for George Heye by the Tea Drinker's Society.
II-73 - II-81Views of young Indian boys dressed in buffalo robes near their tipi.
II-82 - II-90Two Indian girls posing with Mabel Shultis near a tipi.
II-91Interior of tipi with view looking outside.
II-92 - II-93Buffalo skulls on the prairie.

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I.63III-1 - III-2Mrs. Goodbird and Buffalo Bird Woman preparing wild turnips for winter.
III-3 - III-7Goodbird and Wolf Chief showing an empty and full buffalo paunch and how to carry it when it's full of water.
III-8A North Dakota butte called Hawk's Nest which was a vision quest site.
III-9View from Hawk's Nest bluff.
III-10 - III-15Wolf Chief crafting a bone hoe blade made of buffalo shoulder bone while his son looks on.
III-16 - III-17Medicine bundles on votive poles near Calf Woman's door.
III-18Spotted Rabbit's medicine bundles on a tripod beside Rabbit Head's cabin.
III-19 - III-23Buffalo Bird Woman stripping bark from a tree for basket weaving.
III-24 - III-25Buffalo Bird Woman taking bark from a soak and cutting it into strips with scissors for use in basket weaving.
III-26 - III-32Buffalo Bird Woman working with the bark in the slough so it can be soaked and dyed in mud.
III-33Gilbert L. Wilson in the doorway to Wolf Chief's lodge.
III-34Exterior view of Owl Woman's earth lodge.
III-35 - III-36Exterior view of White Woman's lodge which was used for a summer kitchen.
III-37Doorway to Mrs. Kidney's lodge with view of ladder.
III-38Ceremonial earth lodge with altar.
III-39Pack Wolf's son with consumption, sitting on a cot.
III-40Mandan Hidatsa singers during a Fourth of July celebration at Camp Elbowood.
III-41Black Hawk in traditional dress seated on some rocks.
III-42Large group gathered at Camp Elbowood for a Fourth of July celebration.
III-43Black Hawk dancing inside the arbor in traditional dress.
III-44Large group gathered at Camp Elbowood that shows children dancing and men seated in a circle during a Fourth of July celebration.
III-45View of a butte famous for battle.
III-46Wolf Chief's son, Paul, seated on a blanket in the field.
III-47Goodbird's baby, Wilson, on a hide robe.

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I.63III-48 - III-53Packs Wolf demonstrating how to catch catfish with his trap in the Missouri River with assistance from Goodbird.
III-54 - III-60Views of Goodbird placing his dog in a travois and other images of the dog wearing the travois.
III-61 - III-66Packs Wolf demonstrating how to dismantle a fish trap in the river.
III-67Packs Wolf building a fire to dry off and get warm after being in the river while a young boy looks on.
III-68 - III-69Views of Frank White Calf dancing with Good Road singing and drumming.
III-70 - III-72Calf Woman and Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson seated in and posing by the tent erected by Calf Woman.
III-73 - III-75Unidentified boy playing the throwing stick game.
III-76 - III-83Group of boys playing the throwing stick game.
III-84 - III-90Wolf Chief, his wife, and his son Paul trampling, threshing, and winnowing beans.
III-91 - III-92Interior and exterior views of Owl Woman's lodge.
III-93 - III-100Group of women and a few children in a cornfield husking corn.
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I.63IV-1 - IV-3Mrs. Butterfly drying corn on a stage.
IV-4Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson standing by the squash that is hung to dry in rings.
IV-5Goodbird sitting by the squash that is hung to dry in rings.
IV-6 - IV-9Various of views of the "corral," the sacred ark of Mandan, with cloth offerings. Wolf Chief is in some of the images.
IV-10Child asleep in a cornfield during the husking season.
IV-11Mrs. Hale and children in the doorway of a log house.
IV-12Unidentified Indian girl and boys in the doorway of a log house.
IV-13Woman and her family with a wagon by a cabin.
IV-14 - IV-15View of Saddle Butte from a distance.
IV-16 - IV-21Group of people including Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson enjoying a picnic outing to Saddle Butte.
IV-22 - IV-23Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson and Wolf Chief at Wolf Chief's store.
IV-24 - IV-25Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson examining Pack Wolf's fish trap.
IV-26Mrs. Gilbert L. Wilson outside a frame house holding some freshly killed grouse.
IV-27 - IV-29Views of the Mandan collection of J. D. Allen.

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I.63IV-30 - IV-33Buffalo Bird Woman and others weaving a doll from rushes.
IV-34Buffalo Bird Woman demonstrating how a rush doll should be carried.
IV-35 - IV-38Views of Buffalo Bird Woman making and painting a model of a Hidatsa bed. The tools she uses are highlighted in the images.
IV-39Buffalo Bird Woman using an elk horn scraper on a hide.
IV-40Buffalo Bird Woman boiling scrapings from a steer over a fire to make glue used to stay the colors on a painted robe.
IV-41Buffalo Bird Woman putting Son of Star's honor marks on the model bed interior.
IV-42Hides and Eats gathering clay to make a clay pot.
IV-43 - IV-44Hides and Eats pounding stone and making her clay pot.
IV-45Butterfly and his wife dressed in traditional finery.
IV-46 - IV-47Goodbird making a prairie chicken snare out of sticks and horsehair, and removing the prairie chicken.
IV-48 - IV-49Mrs. Goodbird pounding and drying meat.
IV-50 - IV-51Wilson Goodbird standing next to a pot where bone grease is being made.
IV-52 - IV-53Mrs. Goodbird and her family drying meat and making bone grease.
IV-54Interior view of Wolf Chief's earth lodge showing a pole in front of the door used as a lock.
IV-55View of Wolf Chief using a rake.
IV-56 - IV-59Buffalo Bird Woman weaving a rush mat inside a tent.
IV-60Unidentified young girl and man, possibly Gilbert L. Wilson, sitting by the nearly completed mat.
IV-61Nearly completed rush mat waiting to be trimmed.
IV-62Wounded Face and his wife outside their home.
IV-63Wounded Face's daughters with their father on a horse in the background.
IV-64Wounded Face's daughters outside their home with a view of the corn stage.
IV-65Members of Wounded Face's family near the corn stage and uncovered tent.
IV-66View of Young Wilson Goodbird sitting outside.

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I.63IV-67 - IV-68Hairy Coat's wife, Not a Woman, making clay pots.
IV-69 - IV-75Numerous views of Butterfly's wife, Good Voice, wearing a robe ornamented with the pipe and feather design of the adopted sacred child.
IV-76 - IV-77Goodbird and William Hale painting a robe with a small stick that is shaved flat at one end.
IV-78 - IV-85Various views of Alice Shultis and Goodbird modeling a robe painted under the direction of Buffalo Bird Woman.
IV-86 - IV-94Views of Goodbird and his wife, Sioux Woman, crossing the Missouri River in a bullboat.
IV-95Exterior of Hairy Coat's earth lodge.
IV-96 - IV-98Interior views of Hairy Coat's earth lodge that show his bed.
IV-99 - IV-100Wolf Chief drying, scraping, and polishing a handmade bow.
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I.63V-1 - V-4Views of Wolf Chief polishing a handmade bow, and rolling and attaching the string to the bow.
V-5Unidentified Indian girl looking at a staked-out hide.
V-6Goodbird, Sioux Woman, and Buffalo Bird Woman marking a hide for a quiver and bow case.
V-7Buffalo Bird Woman scraping a hide with a stone blade.
V-8 - V-13Views of Wolf Chief demonstrating how to carry, brace, and shoot a bow.
V-14Goodbird with an ornamental elk horn bow.
V-15Goodbird drinking river water out of his hat on the Missouri River bank.
V-16Goodbird in the willows near the Missouri River bottoms.
V-17Leggings, rib sled, bow, arrows, quivers, a case, pipe, maul, seven pots, and a painted robe on display.
V-18Black Chest and his wife.

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I.63V-19 - V-31Numerous views documenting Owl Woman, her daughter, and others making a bullboat.
V-32 - V-36Views of a model of a sacred Mandan lodge constructed by Black Chest.
V-37 - V-39Views of Calf Woman's model of a sacred Mandan lodge and drying stage.
V-40Group portrait posed near Calf Woman's model of a sacred Mandan lodge and drying stage.
V-41 - V-42Calf Woman using her drying rack.
V-43Wolf Chief with an elk horn bow that is drying on a pole to hold its shape.
V-44Model of a cache pit made by Buffalo Bird Woman in the bank of the Missouri River.
V-45Buffalo Bird Woman and F. N. Wilson building a model of a corn drying stage.
V-46Sioux Woman using a bone hoe in a field of squash.
V-47Goodbird demonstrating the use of a digging stick in the garden.
V-48View of some meat being dried by smoke from a fire which was set so the wind carried the smoke to the meat.
V-49Goodbird and his family, and Black Chest and his wife posed outside Independence Chapel.
V-50 - V-53Various views of Buffalo Bird Woman making a model of a drying stage.
V-54 - V-55Models of a drying stage and a threshing booth, both made by Buffalo Bird Woman.
V-56 - V-59Gilbert L. Wilson and F. N. Wilson with partially finished Hidatsa baskets.
V-60 - V-61Interior views of Hairy Coat's earth lodge that show his bed near the fire.
V-62 - V-64Exterior views of Hairy Coat's earth lodge, some of which feature the doorway and ladder.
V-65A heron's nest in a tree.

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I.63V-66 - V-74Several views of Goodbird's horses, including the horses swimming across the river.
V-75 - V-77Portraits of Goodbird wearing a suit.
V-78Congregation outside Independence chapel.
V-79Goodbird demonstrating the warrior pose while sitting on a horse.
V-80 - V-81Goodbird demonstrating deer hunting poses and how to balance the rifle.
V-82 - V-83Goodbird demonstrating how to carry a rifle.
V-84 - V-85Unidentified Hidatsa children.
V-86Gilbert L. Wilson models a robe that is arranged to show how Small Ankle brought home a nest of young grouse.
V-87 - V-89Goodbird demonstrating how to wear a blanket.
V-90 - V-92Goodbird shows how to carry stones in his pocket and throws them at ducks in subsequent images.
V-93 - V-94Goodbird's son posed wearing a calfskin robe.
V-95 - V-96Goodbird demonstrating how to wear a blanket.
V-97 - V-99Views of Butterfly and Wolf Chief by a small model of an arbor.
V-100Fifty, a blind Hidatsa dressed in a dance costume.
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I.63VI-1 - VI-8Several views of Crow Indian with various family members and Fifty, a blind Hidatsa.
VI-9 - VI-19Numerous views of Goodbird's sons swimming and drying off.
VI-20 - VI-21James Baker's son. 2 copies of VI-21.
VI-22 - VI-23James Baker in traditional dancing attire.
VI-24 - VI-25Mrs. Wolf Chief shelling boiled green corn.
VI-26 - VI-27Wolf Chief showing a model frame of a dog kennel.
VI-28 - VI-29Views of Goodbird at his vision quest site where he went to find his god.
VI-30Wolf Chief and his wife with their children Helen and Paul.
VI-31 - VI-32Views of a dog.
VI-33A completed bullboat.
VI-34Drying male squash blossoms near a rock.
VI-35 - VI-36Corral and bridle.
VI-37 - VI-39Goodbird's boys on horseback at the gardens at Independence.

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I.63VI-40 - VI-41Owl Woman using a digging stick to break up the ground for planting.
VI-42Small boy in a field next to a scarecrow.
VI-43 - VI-44Goodbird taking a drink from the Missouri River.
Image VI-43 is not in album in the manuscript collection.
VI-45 - VI-46Goodbird softening antlers for a rake by soaking them in the river.
VI-47Goodbird and Wolf Chief sawing off black tail deer antlers to make a rake.
VI-48 - VI-54Several images of Goodbird, his wife, Sioux Woman, and Owl Woman scraping, hafting, and using the antler rake.
VI-55Goodbird drawing attention to holes in the sand bank.
Image is not in album in the manuscript collection.
VI-56 - VI-58Unidentified woman, probably Mrs. Goodbird, harvesting beans.
VI-59Goodbird's daughter, Amy, harvesting squash.
Image is not in album in the manuscript collection.
VI-60Goodbird using a digging stick.
VI-61Goodbird collecting plants.
VI-62Goodbird's children, John and Amy, standing next to the cornfield.
VI-63Goodbird's daughter Amy, standing next to the cornfield.
Image is not in album in the manuscript collection.
VI-64 - VI-65Owl Woman grinding corn in mortar.
VI-66Goodbird's sons gathering wild plums.
VI-67 - VI-72Goodbird's children throwing the lariat.
VI-73 - VI-74Yellow Hair harvesting June berries.
VI-75Harvesting hay.
VI-76Scene illustrating camp life.
VI-77Gilbert L. Wilson holding young Raymond Goodbird.
VI-78 - VI-79Portraits of Goodbird's family which include Goodbird, Sioux Woman, Robert, Isabel, Benjamin, John Wilson, Amy, and Raymond.
VI-80 - VI-83More views of Goodbird's family both inside and outside their home.
VI-84 - VI-89Two unidentified boys playing the throwing stick game.
VI-90 - VI-94Two unidentified boys playing the hoop and stick game.
VI-95 - VI-96Wolf Chief shaping the tines of a withe rake.
VI-97Owl Woman using a withe rake.
VI-98 - VI-100Views of Goodbird harvesting beans.
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I.63VII-1 - VII-3Views of Goodbird hafting a scapular hoe.
VII-4Goodbird working on a squash knife.
VII-5 - VII-6Goodbird gathering and peeling willows for squash spits with help from his daughter Amy.
VII-7 - VII-13Owl Woman harvesting and drying squash.
Image VII-11 is not in album in the manuscript collection.
VII-14 - VII-15Views of squash drying on a rack.
VII-16Goodbird shows dried squash on the ground.
VII-17Goodbird sitting near dried tobacco plants.
VII-18Unidentified boy near the By Mouth of Old cache pit.
VII-19 - VII-22Several views of the cache pit that include Owl Woman digging it, and logs covering the mouth of it.
VII-23 - VII-26Owl Woman planting and covering beans.
VII-27Sioux Woman shelling boiled corn.
VII-28Unidentified boy sitting next to corn as it dries in the sun on a blanket.
VII-29Goodbird with dried corn.
VII-30Goodbird demonstrating how logs are carried.
VII-31Goodbird constructing a squash knife.
VII-32Owl Woman carrying a basket on her back during harvest.
VII-33 - VII-34Owl Woman and Amy with some sunflowers.
VII-35Goodbird cutting a tree.
VII-36 - VII-37Goodbird hardening a digging stick in the fire.
VII-38 - VII-39Owl Woman demonstrating the use of a digging stick.
VII-40 - VII-41Sioux Woman carrying a basket filled with corn.
VII-42Goodbird feeding corn to the horses.
VII-43Unidentified woman carrying a hide-covered basket.

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I.63VII-44 - VII-49Numerous views of a model of a hunting lodge that include Wolf Chief, Paul Wolf Chief, and Goodbird making a sketch.
VII-50 - VII-51Views of a tree with a large nest in the branches.
VII-52 - VII-57Numerous views of Mrs. Wolf Chief pounding dried meat outdoors.
VII-58 - VII-59Wolf Chief carrying a plate of dried meat.
VII-60Mrs. Wolf Chief sharing dried meat with Gilbert L. Wilson.
VII-61 - VII-62Goodbird standing by growing corn in the cornfield, August 2.
VII-63Goodbird showing the leaves of his squash plants, August 2.
VII-64View of Goodbird by sunflowers, August 2.
VII-65 - VII-66Goodbird showing his tobacco plants, August 2.
VII-67Goodbird standing by growing corn in the cornfield, August 2.
VII-68Image of Goodbird in a tree in the bean garden, August 2.
VII-69 - VII-75Wolf Chief and Helen Wolf Chief showing samples of drying racks for tobacco that can be used indoors and outdoors.
VII-76Fish stringer from willow.
VII-77View of a drying frame.
VII-78Unidentified young man, possibly R. N. or Samuel Wilson, with a pipe holding wolf or coyote hides near Charles Goodbird's wolfhounds.
VII-79Charles Goodbird's wolfhounds.
VII-80 - VII-81Unidentified young man, possibly R. N. or Samuel Wilson, with a pipe holding playing with Charles Goodbird's wolfhounds.
VII-82 - VII-83Goodbird next to a boat in the Missouri River in preparation for swimming horses across the river.
VII-84 - VII-90Images showing the process of swimming horses across the Missouri River with assistance from men in a rowboat.
VII-91Two children on a doorstep, possibly John and Raymond Goodbird.
VII-92Isabel Goodbird on horseback.
VII-93 - VII-95Amy Goodbird cradling a puppy in her shawl.
VII-96View of Goodbird and two unidentified men.
VII-97 - VII-98Unidentified man and young girl in traditional Indian dress.
VII-99Two unidentified boys outside a log house.
VII-100Bird's eye view of tents in a valley.
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I.63VIII-1Bird's eye view of tents in a valley.
VIII-1 - VIII-7Roping and branding steers during the roundup.
VIII-8Women cooking fry bread during the roundup.
VIII-9Two girls on horseback.
VIII-10 - VIII-11Cattle and roped steers during the roundup.
VIII-12Women and children observing the roundup, some shaded by umbrellas.
VIII-13Goodbird standing outside a sweat lodge.

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I.63VIII-14 - VIII-17Views of a forked stick in the water.
VIII-18Wolf Chief wearing a robe.
VIII-19Wolf Chief demonstrating how to wear a robe rolled up for easy travel.
VIII-20 - VIII-21Wolf Chief roasting a cactus over a campfire.
VIII-22 - VIII-26Yellow Hair carrying a bundle of sticks to make a backrest.
VIII-27 - VIII-28A gopher snare, including a view of a trapped gopher.
VIII-29 - VIII-30Views of Goodbird holding his young son, Don.
VIII-31Gilbert L. Wilson holding Don Goodbird and a catfish.
VIII-32Owl Woman using a wooden mortar and pestle.
VIII-33 - VIII-34Front and side views of Goodbird wearing a robe.
VIII-35A gopher sitting outside its burrow.
VIII-36 - VIII-37Horses with sledge at ferry landing.
VIII-38 - VIII-40Unidentified girl with a pail getting water at the river landing.
VIII-41Goodbird's sons Don and Raymond.
VIII-42Twig pile surrounded by flowers.
VIII-43Mr. George Haupt of the University of Minnesota Botanical Department standing in a field.
VIII-44 - VIII-48Views of Goodbird gathering rushes to make a rush mat.
VIII-49 - VIII-51Rushes laid out on the ground with a view of Goodbird in the distance sitting under a dried squash stage.
VIII-52 - VIII-54Views of the partially finished rush mat protected by a sun shade.
VIII-55Buffalo Bird Woman weaving the rush mat.
VIII-56Young woman and a boy in a boat waiting at the ferry landing.
VIII-57 - VIII-61Owl Woman and Many Growths cutting, shaping, and smoothing sticks and ribs for a bullboat.
VIII-62View of ribs being bent for the frame of the bullboat.
VIII-63 - VIII-67Owl Woman and Many Growths fleshing hide and lashing it to the finished frame of the bullboat.
VIII-68View of squash spits and a drying rack used to preserve squash.
VIII-69Goodbird, Mr. Haupt, and Owl Woman putting sliced squash on the spit to dry it.
VIII-70 - VIII-76Owl Woman cutting squash into slices to they can be dried.
VIII-77 - VIII-84Owl Woman placing the sliced squash on spits to dry it.
VIII-85Owl Woman hanging the filled spits on a drying stage.
VIII-86Goodbird sitting beneath the drying stage filled with spits of squash.
VIII-87 - VIII-92Numerous views of the squash spits in various stages of being dried.
VIII-93 - VIII-96Owl Woman sitting amidst squash and making string from beaver grass.
VIII-97View of hanging dried squash.
VIII-98 - VIII-100Owl Woman making choke cherry balls.
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I.63IX-1 - IX-2Owl Woman making choke cherry balls.
IX-3 - IX-4Group of women butchering meat outdoors.
IX-5 - IX-7Women drying meat on racks outdoors.
IX-8Goodbird holding up large pieces of dried meat.
IX-9 - IX-12Goodbird, Willie Hale, and other cooking ribs over a smoky fire.
IX-13 - IX-14Goodbird, Willie Hale, Wolf Chief, Gilbert L. Wilson, and others enjoying freshly cooked ribs.
IX-15View of Goodbird and a mother feeding her baby at lunchtime.
IX-16Goodbird pointing to a plant for botany research.
IX-17View of plants for botany research.
IX-18George Haupt inspecting grasses at the edge of some trees for botany research.
IX-19Owl Woman drying prairie turnips on a string.
IX-20Willow branches leaning against a corn drying stage to protect from either sun or wind.
IX-21Young woman cooking outdoors in summer.
IX-22 - IX-23Young woman standing next a boy on horseback.
IX-24Isabel Goodbird and Buffalo Bird Woman standing outside a log home.
IX-25Six men on horseback.
IX-26 - IX-28Men and women watching scenes in camp.
IX-29Two teams of men competing in Tug-of-War.
IX-30 - IX-32Views of women, including one with a child on her back, in camp.
IX-33General view of camp.
IX-34 - IX-35Women and children in bleachers, possibly for a powwow or rodeo.
IX-36Sioux Woman and baby sitting outside on a blanket while Goodbird cooks a meal.
IX-37View of men at the camp, one of them is possibly smoking.
IX-38Group portrait of sixteen men and one woman, including Wolf Chief, Goodbird, and Reverend Chase, possibly members of the Congregational Church.
IX-39View of the Missouri River landscape.
IX-40Mr. Haupt wrapped in a patterned quilt.
IX-41View of a grave.
IX-42 - IX-44Views of the ferry at Independence being loaded with Mr. Haupt and his specimens for the trip across the Missouri River.
IX-45 - IX-50Numerous scenes of a group of women playing a football game.
IX-51 - IX-53Owl Woman in her yard, drying prairie turnips on a string and putting them in a bag.
IX-54Goodbird and Mr. Haupt examining the agriculture in the area.
IX-55 - IX-60Views of Hidatsa botany.
IX-61 - IX-64Goodbird sitting outside making sausage.

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I.63IX-65 - IX-70Winter interior and exterior views of a hunting lodge built by Owl Woman.
These photographs were taken by C. A. Shultis.
IX-71 - IX-75Unidentified family posing on the front porch of their frame house.

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I.63IX-76Interior view of a room.
IX-77Distant view of a house on the prairie.
IX-78Prairie scene with livestock in the distance.
IX-79Family portrait of a man, woman, and child.
IX-81 - IX-82Views of a woman and her child outside their log home.
IX-83Two unidentified women standing outdoors.
IX-84Unidentified girls standing outside a doorway.
IX-85 - IX-86Young women with babies.
IX-87Two women in elaborate, traditional dress.
IX-88Young woman standing in doorway.
IX-89Two women in elaborate, traditional dress.
IX-90 - IX-91Three boys riding a horse.
IX-92 - IX-94Buffalo skulls lined up on the prairie.
IX-95Woman with three toddler-age children outside on a blanket.
IX-96Toddler-age child standing outside on a blanket.
IX-97A white horse wearing a pad saddle.
IX-98Young boy sitting near a riverbank with a view of the river in the background.
IX-99Amy Goodbird and her puppy outside a log house.
IX-100Distant view of hills.
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I.63X-1 - X-2Scenic views of hills and trees.
X-3 - X-5Boy with fish on a willow stringer near the riverbank.
X-6Woman and boy with a fish on a branch.
X-7Goodbird holding up a fish.
X-8A boy with a large piece of tree bark.
X-9Unidentified man in a gully with a view of the river.
X-10Goodbird holding up some tall plants.
X-11Ferry with a paddle-wheel at the river crossing.
X-12Young woman holding an infant wrapped in a blanket.
X-13 - X-14A pile of brush.
X-15 - X-16Plants and grasses around a pond in the prairie.
X-17 - X-19Views of horses, some from a distance.
X-20 - X-21Looking out across field and water.
X-22Goodbird walking amidst rows of beans.
X-23 - X-24Views of a scarecrow in a cornfield.
X-25 - X-29Sioux Woman hoeing corn.
X-30 - X-38Distant views of Goodbird and others swimming horses across the river.
X-39 - X-42Close views of horses swimming across the river taken from a rowboat.
X-43View of a flatboat loaded with goods for a trip across the river.
X-44Men in a flatboat leading horses across the river.
X-45 - X-48Young boy watching meat being smoked and dried at Goodbird's place at Independence mission.
X-49 - X-53Sioux Woman smoking a hide on a small scale.
X-54 - X-57Goodbird's son holding the hoop piece of a dog travois.
X-58 - X-60Goodbird holding up the poles and harness, as well as the completed dog travois.
X-61 - X-69Goodbird holding up his winter moccasins at various stages of creation.
X-70Yellow Hair working on a model of a flat-topped earth lodge while two girls in a doorway watch.
X-71A woman holding her baby outdoors.
X-72 - X-81Various views and angles of Yellow Hair working on and sitting by her model of a flat-topped earth lodge.
X-82Goodbird standing in a garden at the edge of the woods.
X-83 - X-86Views of the east side garden fences.
X-87 - X-92Various exterior views of Goodbird standing by the hunting lodge built by Owl Woman.
X-93Interior view, looking out the smoke hole of the hunting lodge built by Owl Woman.
X-94 - X-96Interior views, some with Goodbird, of the hunting lodge built by Owl Woman.
X-97 - X-98Front and side views of a hunting lodge model.
X-99Construction details of the entrance to the hunting lodge built by Owl Woman.
X-100Hunting lodge model.
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I.63XI-1 - XI-2Hunting lodge model built near an actual hunting lodge.
XI-3The doorway of a hunting lodge built by Owl Woman.
XI-4 - XI-35Very detailed step-by-step views of a winter and twin earth lodge model directed by Buffalo Bird Woman.
XI-36 - XI-41Detailed step-by-step views of a flat-topped lodge model directed by Buffalo Bird Woman that shows how beams were raised and the top constructed.
XI-42Goodbird with a dog travois.
XI-43 - XI-48Views of quarries that include chunks of Knife River flint, and water possibly filling an ancient mine pit.

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I.63XI-80Two men and a boy standing outside a house.

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Expand/CollapseMISCELLANEOUS ALBUM PHOTOS

Location
I.63Portrait of Small Ankle, Wolf Chief, Red Kettle, and Charging Enemy, from album, page 268, circa 1882.
Designs of the tattoos on Poor Wolf, from album, page 157.
Interior view of a home, with many people sitting around a table next to a cook stove.
Goodbird showing his fish trap, from album, page 66.
View of the old block house at Fort Berthold, from album, page 268, circa 1879.
Portrait of Female Coyote, Wolf Chief, and Frank Wolf Chief, from album, page 268.

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Expand/CollapseRELATED MATERIALS

Books by Gilbert Wilson, including Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation, Goodbird the Indian: His Story, Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story, Myths of the Red Children, and Indian Hero Tales are separately cataloged in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection.

The Gilbert L. and Frederick N. Wilson collection of three dimensional objects is in the Minnesota Historical Society museum collection.

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Expand/CollapseSEPARATED MATERIAL

The Gilbert L. and Frederick N. Wilson papers are cataloged separately in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscripts collection.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
Hidatsa Indians -- Photographs.
Persons:
Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930.
Document Types:
Photographs.

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