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These Menominee photographs are estimated to have been taken between 1910 and 1920.
Please click on the photo for a larger view.
MENOMINEE
LAND
and
PEOPLE

School Children at the Indian School - Keshina

Menominee Indian Fair TeePee display with  Parfleches piled to the side of the entrance. 

Menominee Medicine Woman
Louise Amor
models the intricate bead and silver work of her attire.

 

Family and guest (second from left) at the "Sugar Shack" during Maple sugar season. The guest is thought to be acclaimed Indian photographer Harmon Percy Marble

Woman and granddaughter dressed for Pow Wow .

Menominee man and his guests.

Prominent women pose in formal attire before the baking hut.

Portable housing for fair and ceremonial visits.

Elder in finery.
This is thought to be the son of
Chief Jim Crow.
Chief 
Jim Crow
"Last of the Menominee Blanket Chiefs"

Chief Crow sits for a formal portrait in his last years.

Chief Crow and a guest, thought to be government Indian agent and acclaimed Indian photographer Harmon Percy Marble

Chief Crow portrait holding his pipe.

Wife of Chief Crow holding ceremonial rattle.
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Menominee Memorial Day Celebrations
1915 - 1918
American Civil War
and
Spanish American War Veterans

Menominee War Veterans lead the Grand March

Menominee War Veterans march in their tribal finery.

Church Procession to the memorial grounds.

Decorated memorial to 
the Tribal Warrior Veterans

Parade of the school children, honoring Menominee Veterans of all wars.

Menominee Spanish American War Veteran

Menominee Civil War Veterans gather around a tired resting comrade.
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Menominee Indian Fair

Menominee Indian Fair TeePee display with  Parfleches piled to the side of the entrance. 

Indian Fair Dancers.
The war bonnets are of the western tribes and were worn due to the tourist and Hollywood expectations of Indian appearance.

Dance competition entrants mingle with others while awaiting their turns.

Fair Dancers greet audience.

Members sit for a group photograph.
Menominee Ceremony
and Funeral

Chief Crow shortly before his death in 1915..

This was the funeral ceremony for Chief Jim Crow. There is the outer stockade circle, and an inner circle of bent saplings where the ceremony takes place surrounds the offerings.

Ceremony with shaking rattles, ritual singing, drumming and the burning of offerings beneath spirit bundles

Ceremonial circle passing the offerings

Mourners passing the offerings

Menominee burial ground 

Shelter and mourners at the burial site.
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Menominee Mourners with the traditional 
ghost houses 
built over graves.


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