Title: Transparencies of Native Americans in Wisconsin Compiled by J.F. Wojta
Inclusive Dates: circa 1930

Creator:

• Wojta, J. F. (Joseph Frank), compiler

Call Number: PH 1236; PH 1237; SC 3190

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet of transparencies (2 negative boxes) and 0.1 cubic feet of paper (1 folder)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTIONS MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry for additional information.

Abstract:

Lantern slides assembled by J.F. Wojta, for courses on improved farming practices for various tribes in Wisconsin. The courses were entitled “Early Indian Life in Wisconsin” and “Indians in Wisconsin in Food Production.” Wojta, who photographed some of the images, also borrowed others, including some from the WHS collections. Images feature individuals wearing handmade beaded regalia, hunting, dressing hides, drying corn, and picking cranberries. Individuals identified include Earnest Oshkosh, Mrs. Antonne Buffalo Sr., and Chas. Decorah. Also includes images of a pipestone quarry, implements, baskets, farmland and livestock, maple sugar harvest, wigwams, the Odanah Fair in Keshena, Wisconsin, and a lacrosse team. The “Early Indian Life in Wisconsin” course is accompanied by lecture notes and descriptions of the slides. Tribes represented include members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Menominee and Ho-Chunk.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

The slide sets are incomplete; missing slides identified in the contents list.

Lantern slides are 3 1/4 x 4-inches.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph01236

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J.F. Wojta was a University of Wisconsin extension agent who held programs on improved farming practices for Wisconsin's various Indian tribes, including the Menominee.

Links to the digital copies are available in the contents list. A few are not available online and have been identified.

Access Restrictions

Originals restricted, use digital copies available online (see finding aid for access). For access to originals see Reference Archivist.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Margaret Wojta, 1957.

PH 1236	Early Indian Life in Wisconsin Note: The titles are from captions on the items themselves, so out-of-date terms are used. Some images in the glass slides came from other sources including the Charles Van Schaick photographs and negatives.
Item   1	“Chief Winneshiek [or Black Hawk?]” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ho-Chunk.
Item   2	[not in collection]
Item   3	“[Ben Thundercloud], Ready for a dance Pow-Wow” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Black Longtree crossed out on slide.
Item   4	“A group of Winnebago Indians” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ho-Chunk.
Item   5	“Pipestone Quarry” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   6	“Indian Stone Implement Makers” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   7	“An Indian Flint Spade” Note: No digital copy available.
Item   8	“Indian Agricultural Implements” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   9	“Indian Hunting Deer on Snowshoes” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   10	“A Squaw [Woman] Dressing a Deer” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   11	“Squaw [Women] Tanning a Deer Hide” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   12	“An Indian Trapper” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   13	“Two Early Indians” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   14	“Indian Family in Canoe” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   15	“The Spirit Rock” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   16	“Women Weaving Basketry” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   17	“Pottery Vessels” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   18	“Garden Beds showing Intersection of Plots” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   19	“Leeman Garden Beds” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   20	“Stockbridge Garden Beds” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   21	“Ears of Indian Corn” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   22	“Carroll College Corn Hills” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   23	“Preparing Corn for Drying” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   24	“Method of Drying Shelled Corn” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   25	“Pottawatomi Indians” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   26	“Indians Gathering Cranberries” Note: No digital copy available.
Item   27	“Hard Maple Grove on Tap” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   28	“A Sugar Camp” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   29	[not in collection]
Item   30	“Indian Ponies” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   31	“Chippewa Camp” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ojibwe. Picture includes Conical Wigwams (na? sawaö? gan)
Item   33	“Medicine Wigwam” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ho-Chunk or possibly an Ojibwe Midewigaan [Grand Medicine Lodge].
Item   34	“Lake [Lac] Vieux Desert Village” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ojibwe? Picture includes a log cabin, wigwam, and possibly a gabled bark house (gaka gaogan)
Item   35	“Indian Birch Bark Wigwam” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   36-37	[not in collection]
Item   38	“Indian Cemetery” Note: No digital copy available.
Item   39	“A Team of Indians before Playing Game of La Crosse” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   40	“Monument to Chief Yellow Thunder” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ho-Chunk Chief. Erected by Sauk County Historical Society and Twentieth Century Club of Baraboo.
Item   41	“A Group of Chippewa Indian Dancers” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ojibwe.
Item   42	[not in collection]
Item   43	“Annual Indian Fair” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: In Odanah, Wisconsin, 1915.
Item   44	[not in collection]
Item   45	“Indian School Girls” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   unnumbered	“[Alec Lonetree (NaENeeKeeKah)]” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ben Thundercloud crossed out on slide.
PH 1237	Indians of Wisconsin in Food Production Note: J.F. Wojta Lecture with slides identified.
Item   1	[not in collection]
Item   2	“A Span of Draft Horses” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Incorrectly numbered 45. Caption not on slide, from slide list.
Item   3-4	[not in collection]
Item   5	“Indians Clearing Land near Valley Junction” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   6	[not in collection]
Item   7	“Indian Farmer Using Corn Planter” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   8-10	[not in collection]
Item   11	“Indian Farmer (Chippewa) Preparing Seed Bed” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ojibwe.
Item   12	[not in collection]
Item   13	“Chas Decorah (Winnebago Indian) Seeding Oats broadcast” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ho-Chunk.
Item   14-17	[not in collection]
Item   18	“Winnebago Indian Family in Harvest Time” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ho-Chunk.
Item   19	“Mrs. Antonne Buffalo Sr. Farmerette” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   20-30	[not in collection]
Item   31	“A group of Indians Learning Better Farming” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   32	[not in collection]
Item   33	“Viewing and Judging teams of horses, Keshena (Menominee Res.)” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   34	“Judging Horses Indian Institute” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Caption and image number not on slide; from slide list.
Item   35	“Judging Dairy Cows” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   36	“Indian Farmers Course at Red Cliff, Chippewa Indians, Judging Sheep” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Ojibwe.
Item   37	[not in collection]
Item   38	“Indian Farmers School Judging Corn” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   39	“Learning to Select Good Horses” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   40-42	[not in collection]
Item   43	“The Indians Name Farms” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   44	[not in collection]
Item   45	“Chippewa Indian Crop Exhibit at their Annual Fair, Odanah” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image. Note: Slide has been colored. Ojibwe.
Item   46	[not in collection]
Item   47	“Menominee Indian Farm Agent Ernest Oshkosh” Alternate Format: See a digital copy of this image.
Item   48-50	[not in collection]
SC 3190	Lecture notes