[Elderly Chippewa woman tying together ears of flint corn]

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Description: 

Image from a magazine article entitled "A Chippewa Woman of Minnesota Nett Lake Reservation Prepares Corn for Drying. The Ears Are Tied Together with Buckskin Thongs and Hung to Dry on Log Rafters."

Various images of individuals and groups meeting and working, some wearing traditional dress and others in Euro-American clothing. One old woman making corncob bundles; an infant in cradleboard chewing on the corner of a book, "Indians at work"; elaborately dressed Blackfeet sitting near tepees; Mescalero Apache devil dancers; group of Kiowa in meeting house or church in Oklahoma(?); Osage and Euro-American men, including "Comm. Sells, Interior Dept." One image appears be ca. 1925.

Location Description: 

USA; Minnesota; Koochiching County, Saint Louis County; Nett Lake Sector, Bois Forte Reservation

Title: 
[Elderly Chippewa woman tying together ears of flint corn]
Protocol: 
Library of Congress (LOC) Public Access
Community: 
Library Of Congress (LOC)
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek, Art, Music & Histories, Connections to the Land
Tribe(s): 
Original Date Description: 
[between 1940 and 1950]
Rights: 
For reproductions and permissions other than for personal or classroom use, please contact the Library of Congress (https://ask.loc.gov/#s-la-box-83050-container-tab1)
Traditional Knowledge Labels: 
Source: 
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Publisher: 
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs
Identifier: 
LOT 12944, LC-DIG-ds-14378
Subject: 
Anishinaabe of Minnesota--1940s
Type: 
gelatin silver
Format: 
sheet 13 x 18 cm