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Title: Monroe P. Killy
Dates: 1916-1947
Collection Number: 00039
Quantity: 89 prints and 71 negatives
Abstract: Photographic prints mounted on album pages of Indian people on the Fort Berthold Reservation, log cabins, flint quarries, women working with hides and other images, mostly from 1942.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota purchased this collection from Monroe P. Killy in September 1979.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights to materials in this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs. Researcher should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94‑553, Title 17 U.S. Code and an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the collection title, collection number, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.
Related Collections:
“Last of the Mandans” 16mm film shot by Monroe Killy at Fort Berthold in 1942 Core Number 9014. The still images in this 00039 collection are of the people who appeared in the film.
INVENTORY
1 Antelope Woman (Mandan) Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
2 Antelope Woman and Sitting Crow (Mandan), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection 1942
3 Antelope Woman (Mandan) June 1942, Melvin R. Gilmore Collection
4 Antelope Woman and Sitting Crow, Mandan Indians - Melvin R. Gilmore Collection 1942
5 Antelope Woman, Sitting Crow, and Joe Hiller - Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
6 Christine Blue Stone and Virginia Johnson - Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
7 Crows Breast - Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
8 Drags Wolf, Gros Ventres (Hidatsa) Shell Creek at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (ND), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
9 Drags Wolf – Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
10 Drags Wolf, Gros Ventres (Hidatsa), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
11 Ernest Fox, Elbowoods (ND), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
12 Ernest Fox, Elbowoods (ND), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
13 Ernest Fox Family, Elbowoods (ND), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
14 Ernest Fox Family, Elbowoods (ND), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
15 Ernest Fox Family, Elbowoods (ND), Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
16 Papoose on Mother's Back Ernest Fox's Sister, Ester Jones (Mrs. Peter) Star Elbowoods (ND) June 1942 Melvin R. Gilmore Collection
17 Papoose on Mother's back, Sister of Ernest Fox, Ester Jones (Mrs. Peter) Star Elbowoods (ND) Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 1942
18 Mrs. Hanah Fox, (Arikara) Choke Cherry Girl, Nishu Church, Melvin R. Gilmore Collection June 28, 1942
19 Alex Sage (Arikara), Mary (Sitting Crow) Sage, and Mattie Grinnell, Fort Berthold (ND) June 1942
20 Company E- Armory
20 Mamie Marvin, and Mattie Grinnell at Fort Berthold (ND) June 1943
21 Little Owl, Phyllis and Lois (Sisters) at Fort Berthold (ND), Grandchildren of Mattie Grinnell
22 Little Crow, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
23 Little Crow, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
24 Little Crow, Fort Berthold June 1942
25 Little Crow, Fort Berthold June 1942
26 Little Crow, Fort Berthold June 1942
27 Little Crow, Fort Berthold June 1942
28 Little Owl (Mandan), Shell Creek, Fort Berthold June 1942
29 Mrs. Little Crow, Corn Grinder (Pounder)
30 Mrs. Stella Howling Wolf – Melvin R. Gilmore Collection
30 Mrs. Little Crow
31 Mrs. Little Crow, Smoothing Hide
32 Little Owl, Fort Berthold June 1942
33 grandchildren of Little Owl June 1942
34 Daisy Ross (Arikara) June 28, 1942
35 Daisy Ross (Arikara) June 28, 1942
36 Daisy Ross (Arikara) June 28, 1942
37 Alvin Sage, Hidatsa, Mandan
38 Mrs. Sitting Crow (Mandan) Fort Berthold (ND) June 1942
39 Mrs. Sitting Crow (Mandan) Fort Berthold (ND) June 1942
40 Johney Sitting Crow, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
41 Jeff Smith Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
42 Jeff Smith, Mrs. Little Crow, Doe Hiller Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
43 Chief Snowbird of the Gros Ventres, Hidatsa, Fort Berthold (ND)
44 Jessie Star, Louise Star, Marvin Star 1947/06/29
45 Pete Star's Children, Juliet, Marlene, Pete Jr.
46 Rosalie Star, Ree June 29, 1947
47 Yellow Wolf Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
48 Yellow Wolf, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
49 Yellow Wolf, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
50 Mrs. Little Crow sewing quills 1925
51 Utsitsa wiaś or Weasel Woman or Jeanette Little Crow (Sanish) making moccasins 1925
52 Stella (E. Rogers) Howling Wolf; Arikara June 28, 1942
53 Mrs. Little Crow (Weasel Woman) Stella (Rogers) Howling Wolf showing how to work with hide. June 1942
54 Hide Scraping - Mrs. Little Crow (Weasel Woman) Stella (Rogers) Howling Wolf showing how to work with hide June 1942
55 Softening Hide; Mrs. Little Crow (Weasel Woman) and Stella (Rogers) Howling Wolf showing how to work with hide June 1942
56 Preparing Hide; Mrs. Little Crow (Weasel Woman) and Stella (Rogers) Howling Wolf showing how to prepare hide June 1942
57 Removing hair from Hide; Mrs. Little Crow (Weasel Woman) and Stella (Rogers) Howling Wolf showing how to work with hide June 1942
58 Meat drying, Arikara, Fort Berthold (ND) June 1942
59 Many Horses, Sioux, Cannonball (ND) June 1942
60 Domino Game, Cannonball (ND) June 1942
61 Mamie Meluim, Cannonball (ND)
62 Cabin on hill, Nishu Fort Berthold (ND) June 1942
63 Cabin and Sweat Lodge, Little Crow's
64 Cabin and Lodge, Fort Berthold (ND) 1942
65 Log Cabin, Fort Berthold (ND) 1942
66 Automobile crossing Beaver Creek at Elbowoods on Fort Berthold Reservation June 1942
67 Louis Fournier pulling an automobile uphill with a team of horses, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (ND) 1942
68 Team and Wagon, Indians, Nishu; Fort Berthold (ND) June 1942
69 Powwow Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
70 Powwow Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
71 Powwow/WWII soldier, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
72 Alice Watson and Miss Murray, missionaries at Elbowoods June 1942
73 Unidentified woman
74 Unidentified woman, oldest woman in town Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
75 Mattie Grinnell, Elbowoods (ND) June 1942
76 Red Bear (Arikara)
77 White Eagle (Pawnee) & Melvin R. Gilmore at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (ND) Apr. 4, 1942
78 Northern Pacific Railroad Depot at Bismarck (ND) 1918
79 Group of people
81 State Historical Society of ND museum exhibits 1918
82 State Historical Society of ND museum exhibits 1918
83 State Historical Society of ND museum exhibits 1918
84 Fort Lincoln, Bismarck (ND); soldiers on parade ground 1916
86 One Elk, Red Tomahawk, and Dana Wright taken at the site where Sitting Bull was killed
87 Melvin R. Gilmore, Charles R. Keys, Harry C. Oberholser, observe a Sanish woman making moccasins
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