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This photograph contains harmful imagery of a white woman appropriating Sioux costume.
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Louisa Barrel Patterson wearing a costume purchased from the Sioux Indians ca. 1868 at Fort Laramie by the Patterson family. Identification of this item came from Michael Burr Patterson (b. 1936 in Wayland), nephew of the subject of the photograph.
Sioux
costume (mode of fashion)
black-and-white photographs
1 photograph
MS026
Sears and Cutting families papers
MS026.TMP.AWC.015.068
Wayland (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Cutting, Alfred Wayland (Photographer)
black-and-white photographs
Barrel, Louisa Patterson, ca. 1899-1925
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