Kutenai (Kootenai) raising sun dance lodge
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content: OPPS NEG.52550
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content: Black and white copy negative
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content: Cross
creator: label: Creator
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culture: label: Culture
content: Kootenai (Kutenai)
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content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Cross
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content: Information from letter of Claude E. Schaeffer, Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, Montana, August 13, 1965: "According to Ambrose Gravelle, the present Kutenai Chief at Tobacco Plains, B.C., this particular Sun Dance was put on for a sort of demonstration by the Elmo, Montana, Kutenai at Hot Springs, Montana. He claimed that it took place about 1914 and that a merchant named Pissaw (?) sponsored the ceremony. The Sun Dance leader was Chief Hat, of Elmo, Montana, who Gravelle claims, fell from the center pole during the erection of the lodge. I hope to check this information at Elmo this fall but I thought it might be useful for your records. Gravelle claims to have been present as a youth at the ceremony.
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content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Photographs