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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:

Remnants of Southern Australian Aborigines, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2996
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two Southern Australian Aborigine men standing together in a wooded field in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Story about 'na brari dearga' reputed original inhabitants [of Uist], c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/54
Scope and Contents

Story about 'na brari dearga' reputed original inhabitants [of Uist] that they were completely naked and would tan themselves with bark from the trees that used to be there. Also tells how the chief would have three red stripes on his arm, a colour which was obtained from some liquid from the trees.

Dates: c1872

Tamil Man, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3292
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Tamil man in traditional dress in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Crocodile Dance of the Bhutia Women, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1130
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of Bhuija women performing the crocodile dance in a wooded area next to a marquee in the background in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Drop Scene Two Miles Up the Wanganui River, New Zealand, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/255
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Maori girl standing on a canoe at 'the drop scene two miles up the Wanganui River' in New Zealand in the late 19th or early 20th century. In the background there is another canoe, jungle and mountains. The image has been 'photoshopped' with the Maori girl in the canoe having been cut out from another image and placed in the foreground of the image.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Todas at Home, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2631
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Toda family in front of their home, a barrel-shaped, thatched-roof structure in a woodland in Southern India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Trees Killed on Native Lands, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/980
Scope and Contents

Photograph of trees killed on native lands in Africa in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Type of Yucatacos [Yucatecos], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1269
Scope and Contents

Portrait photograph of a Yucateco woman, a native of the Yucatan in Mexico, wearing an embroidered white dress standing next to some plants in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Young Khonds, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1462
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of young Khond boys in traditional dress standing beneath some trees in [Orissa?], India in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s