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Indigenous Peoples

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Maori Woman, North Island, New Zealand, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2565
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Maori woman in traditional dress from the North Island in New Zealand in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Marwaree Women, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1450
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two Marwaree women dressed in saris and jewellery in the early 20th century India. The text beneath the image notes that the, 'Marwaree are the money lenders of India.' and 'their women, as shown above, wear picturesque dresses of bright colours.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Monda [Munda] Women, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2562
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two Monda [Munda] women standing in front of a set of pillars in India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Native Game Trap, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1141
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a native game trap using tree branches on the plains [in Africa?] in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Native School at Jagannathpur, [India], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1468
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of children and their teacher at a 'native' school in Jagannathpur, India in the early 20th century. The children stand and sit outside the school house with some of them carrying writing slates.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Pan Women, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/220
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Pan women in the late 19th century or early 20th century. A handwritten note on the slide states, 'Pan's or weavers are a low caste of aborigines. These are Khond Pana.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Pan Women, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3295
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of women from the Pan tribe in [India] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Parosse Natives in Dug-Outs on Zambesi, Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1019
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Parosse natives standing in dug-outs or canoes on the Zambesi River in Rhodesia in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Pathans from Peshawar Valley [Pakistan], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1451
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Pathan men and boys from the Peshawar Valley in Pakistan in the early 20th century. They are posed sitting and standing in a courtyard wearing traditional dress and are carrying a variety of guns and swords.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Presscutting on 'Bird-Nesting in Borneo', 1905

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Identifier: Coll-99/10/8
Scope and Contents

Presscutting from the Straits Times on 'Bird-Nesting in Borneo' and touching on the geography of the area and its indigenous people, the Dyaks.

Dates: 1905