National Sampler:
Nebraska Photographs From the Collections

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Omaha fancy dancers perform on the Neptune Plaza, in front of the Library of Congress, in 1985. Included in the photograph are Hollis Stabler Sr. (left), Morgan Lovejoy (in red), and Charles Lonewolf (center, in white shirt), who are members of the Hethu'shka Society. Photograph by Reid Baker, August 8, 1985. [AFC 1985/015: Omaha/20/RB]

AFC folklorist Dorothy Sara Lee and powwow Emcee Clifford Wolfe, Sr. 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow, Macy, Nebraska. Photograph by Carl Fleischhauer, August 13, 1983. This and the photographs that follow on this page document the events surrounding the repatraition of wax cylinder recordings to the Omaha by the Library of Congress. [AFC 1986/038:FCP/0-CF-214061-10/19]

Poster for the "153rd Annual Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow," Macy, Nebraska. [Digital ID afcomaha 0813]

Maria La Vigna and Dorothy Sara Lee with two Nagra tape recorders used to document events at the powwow.  Photography from Federal Cylinder Project Repatriation Program. [AFC 1986/038:FCP/0-CFS-7]

Dancers enter the arena during the Grand Entry at the 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow. Macy, Nebraska. Photograph by Dorothy Sara Lee, August 14, 1983. [AFC1986/038: FCP/0-DSL3-9]

Competitor in the Men's Fancy Dance competition at the 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow, Macy, Nebraska. Photograph by Carl Fleischhauer, August 14, 1983. [AFC 1986/038:FCP/0-CF1-5]

Mary Snowball participating in the Women's Traditional Cloth Dance competition at the 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow, Macy, Nebraska. Photograph by Carl Fleischhauer, August 14, 1983. [AFC 1986/038: FCP/0-CF10-15].

Dancers leave the arena for supper. 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow, Macy, Nebraska.  Photograph by Carl Fleischhauer, August 14, 1983. [AFC 1986/038: FCP/0-CF12-17].

Dorothy Sara Lee (right) presents tape copies of the Omaha wax cylinder recordings to Tribal Chairman Elmer Blackbird at the 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow, Macy, Nebraska. Photograph by Carl Fleischhauer, August 14, 1983. [AFC 1986/038: FCP/0-CF-214061-5/37A].

Dancers perform to a song from the wax cylinder recordings, celebrating the repatriation of this music to the tribe at the 1983 Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow, Macy, Nebraska. Photograph by Carl Fleischhauer, August 14, 1983.[AFC 1986/038: FCP/0-CF4-14].