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Cuff created between 2012 and 2013 by Dakota/Navajo artist Dallas Goldtooth.
Lace doily made by Dakota women at Birch Coulee Mission, possibly as a result of the lace-making school, c.1890–1920.
Dakota summer lodge, ca. 1846–1848. Watercolor painting by Seth Eastman.
Dakota beaded wall pocket made c.1900.
Dakota woman and children, ca. 1920.
Colorized picture postcard featuring a Dakota woman making beadwork, c.1930.
Graphite drawing of a Dakota woman processing a hide, c.1845. Drawing by Seth Eastman.
Dakota woman’s hide and wool dress, c.1850s.
Dakota women and children guarding corn from blackbirds. Photograph by Adrian John Ebell (Whitney's Gallery), August 1862.
Two Dakota women at the Fort Snelling concentration camp, c.1862–1863. Photograph by Joel Emmons Whitney.