Like a Fishhook Village

[tkavanagh]

This is the first photo I have uploaded, I hope it works.

This is a composite we made at the Smithsonian ca 1990. It was after I wrote the "Whose Village" article on the Soule photos for Visual Anthropology. We were looking at M-H-A photos and I started to see similarities/continuities betweeen these Morrow pix. I put together a Xerox composite which the graphic designer "cleaned" up.

It's from the HNAI, Vol 13, pt1.

tk

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[Dietmar]

It works, impressive collage!

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Greetings

Dietmar

[ephriam]

Here is a re-posting of Kavanagh's composite view from above. Apparently, the link has become broken.



And here is a composite that I made from another set of photographs also by Stanley J. Morrow, but taken some time later, perhaps a year or two after the above composite. Assuming that the photographer is set up in the northwest bastion of Fort Berthold so that he could get an elevated view of Like a Fishhook Village, it is probable that the buildings in the foreground are those occupied by F. F. Gerard as his trading post.

[grahamew]

Is this it?

[ephriam]

Here are two drawings of Fort Berthold that I found at the National Archives, drawn by Montgomery C. Meigs Jr. (1847-1931) in June 1871 while working as a civilian engineer surveying possible routes for the Northern Pacific Railroad across Dakota Territory. Meigs' letters from his time in Dakota are at the Huntington Library.

[carlo]

Those pictures and drawings are great, thanks for sharing!

[ephriam]

And here is a similar view of the interior of Fort Berthold by William H. Illingworth, probably July 1866. Original at the New York Public Library. Notice the soldiers sitting outside what was probably the Quartermaster's Office. To the right are a pile of heating stoves and a cooking range; to the left can be seen some of the cooking range tops. Can't decipher what the bundle is in the background however.

[carlo]

Ephriam, could those be some sort of wildlife traps? Seem too large for fishing though.

[ephriam]

By this time, the fort was being used by the Army, so I suspect whatever they are must be something being used by soldiers. At first I thought they might be headboards for iron bedsteads bundled together, but these are not the right pattern for this period.

[ephriam]

And here is another view of Like a Fishhook village, this one by Orlando S. Goff, perhaps taken in the late 1870s or early 1880s.

[fernando]

Mar 22, 2015 10:17:19 GMT -5 ephriam said:

Here is a re-posting of Kavanagh's composite view from above. Apparently, the link has become broken.



And here is a composite that I made from another set of photographs also by Stanley J. Morrow, but taken some time later, perhaps a year or two after the above composite. Assuming that the photographer is set up in the northwest bastion of Fort Berthold so that he could get an elevated view of Like a Fishhook Village, it is probable that the buildings in the foreground are those occupied by F. F. Gerard as his trading post.

Ephriam, I am unable to see your re-posting view of the Like a Fishhook Village. Could you please send it to me ? my male: [e-mail]. Many thanks in advance.

[Gary]

Have a lot of the images disappeared, or is my computer playing up?