Seminole participants in a staged promotional event in West Palm Beach, Florida
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.44353 H
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Underwood & Underwood
place: label: Place
content: Florida -- West Palm Beach
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Underwood & Underwood
culture: label: Culture
content: Seminole
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Underwood & Underwood
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (4 1/2x6 1/4 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Mar 13 1921
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 9 women and 3 children. 250218F. Photo by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. Mimeographed label on back gives following: "Seminole Indians Out in Full Regalia for Annual Sun Dance. News Item--Each year West Palm Beach and all its society sojourners experience thr thrill of a sun dance in which Seminole Indians play the leading role. The gaily bedecked squaws dance and otherwise make merry for the fashionable onlookers. The fifth event recently held was the greatest ever put on. This photo clearly shows the type of Seminole Indian that joined in the festivities. Note the peculiar headdress and the many beads worn by them as a sign of wealth and social rank [erroneous]."