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Anon.
Indian portrait
n.d.
Collodion print
5 ¼ x 3 7/8 in
Be-Hold
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 87)
The club carried by the man in feathered headdress is actually a maul used by women for mashing choke cherries or pounding dried meat [thanks Mike Cowdrey.] His beaded strap is Ojibway. Many of these artifacts were widely traded, and so are not original with the tribe.
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