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7. “Shoshone Braves,” Carl Chittim,
ca. 1896. (Wind River Historical Center/Dubois Museum)
 While
Chittim’s photographs help document a culture in transition,
they are not part of a systematic attempt to record or preserve.
A number of these photographs, however, provide an invaluable testimony
to the strong cultural continuity maintained during the early reservation
years when dances and ceremonies were still practiced without government
interference. Here, participants in a Wolf or War Dance line up
in front of a log structure, to have their photograph taken. Several
seem amused at the whole proceedings.
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