Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians

Photographs

Like-a-fishhook village being dismantled, July 1887; the drying stage in the foreground is floored in Arikara fashion, with a mat of willows, and it holds what looks like a pile ofsquashes (photographed by George Curtis; American Museum of Natural History 15979) p1 Owl Woman with an antler rake, 1914 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson; Minnesota Historical Society 42348) Owl Woman showing how to use a digging stick, 1914 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson ; Minnesota Historical Society 42342) p2 Sioux Woman, Goodbird's wife, hoeing squash to demonstrate the use of a bone hoe, 1912 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson; Minnesota Historical Society 9448-A) p3 Owl Woman gathering sunflowers in a skin basket, 1914 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson; Minnesota Historical Society 42218) p4 Scarecrow a in corn ficld, 1918 (photographed by Gilbcn Wilson ; 1'.1innesota Historical Society 41284) Husking corn, 1909; the woman braids the best cars (photographed by Gilbert \'\/ilson; Minnesota Historical Society 9627-A) p5 Drying loose and braided ears of corn on a corn stage, 1909 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson ; American Museum of Natural History 286444) p6 011'1 \Voman pounding corn into meal in a cornmonar, 19J4 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson; Minnesota Historical Society 42324) p7 Owl Woman slicing squash with a bone squash kni/<." 1916 (photographed by Gilbert \'\/ilson; lv!innesota Historical Society 42264) Goodbitd sitting under slkcs of drying squash, Slfllllg on spirs and laid on a srfUCfllfe built to resemble a corn stage (photographed by Gilbert Wilson; Minnesota Historical Society 42094) p8 Woman winnowing beans, 1909 (photographed by Gilbert Wilson; lvfinneso(a JJis(orical Society 96Y)·i\) p9 I-.!odcl of;1 c;1che pit, 1912; m;1de by Buffalo Bird \X/oman in the bank of the Missouri River to show cross section (photographed by Gilbert \\Iii· son: },linnesota Historical Society 9446·1\) p10 ...