Minnesota Historical Society
Title
Minnesota Historical Society
Alternative Title
MNHS
Description
Extensive ethnology collections focused on regional Anishinaabe and Siouan cultures.
Spatial Coverage
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Access Rights
Requests for high resolution images can be ordered online from links on each individual item's record. Use of low resolution images for "fair use" educational purposes is permitted.
Rights Holder
MNHS Library Permissions <library.permissions@mnhs.org>
Collection Items
Female Doll Wearing Hide Strap Dress Ensemble
Leather doll wearing home cured deerhide strap dress and sleeves with black woolen cloth leggings, yarn belt, and deerhide moccasins. The dress and sleeves are trimmed with pinking and fringing. The leggings are trimmed with ribbon and blue seed…
Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Embroidery Trim
Cloth doll with face and hair tied into a seed bead binding at center back wears a strap dress of blue wool with blue wool sleeves, red wool leggings, twisted yarn belt and unsmoked hide moccasins. The dress and sleeves are decorated with thread…
Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Large Straps
Cloth doll with face drawn on wears dark blue wool strap dress with same color sleeves and leggings. The straps of the dress are very large and terminate at the front in a V shape. The dress, straps and leggings are trimmed with white seed beads. The…
Female Doll Wearing Strap Dress with Pinked Hem
Cloth doll with face and hair, wearing faded blue strap dress with pinked hem and red straps, sleeves and leggings. Straps and sleeves are trimmed with green seed bead running stitch. Doll also wears strands of blue and yellow seed beads and deerhide…
Mrs. George Walters and Mary, Dressed for White Earth Celebration.
The subjects, Mrs. George Walters and Mary, are walking on a path towards the photographer wearing ceremonial regalia. Walters is wearing a strap dress and Mary is wearing a cloth version of a Plains-style hide dress. There is a house in the…
Two young women with wigwam and model tipi with pair of dolls
Two young women stand in front of a bark and mat wigwam with a model birch bark tipi and a pair of male and female dolls dressed in buckskin regalia. The women are dressed in flapper style dresses with white stockings and Mary Jane shoes. One of them…
Margaret Guinon, White Earth, Minnesota
Upper torso portrait of Margaret Guinon. She wears a strap dress ensemble consisting of a dress with a floral beadwork bib and sleeves with wool tape trim, beaded cuffs and a cross-strip with "breast plate" descending from it.
Mrs. Florence Beaulieu Dahl, White Earth Indian Reservation
Full front view of Mrs. Florence Beaulieu Dahl posing outside among some trees. She is wearing strap dress ensemble that consists of a woolen dress with white selvedge at the hem, leggings, moccasins, sleeves and long bead necklaces. The front panel…
Dress and sleeves modeled by unknown woman at White Earth, 1917
Back and side views of unidentified woman standing in a field wearing a woolen strap dress ensemble with ribbon and floral beadwork trim. Dress has broad ribbon trim at hem, an inverted V motif of multiple rows of ribbon on center of skirt. Sleeves…
Portrait of Mrs. George Walters, White Earth Indian Reservation
Candid side view photograph of Mrs. George Walters holding an eagle staff taken during festivities, possibly the June 14th Celebration. Two men in citizen's dress stand in the background. Woman with ankle-length cotton skirt and tartan shawl…