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Indian Hall, Great Exhibition
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A print of an original watercolour by Joseph Nash showing a section of the Indian Hall in the Crystal Palace of the Great Exhibition of 1851. (British Library, London)
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North American Indian Warrior by John White
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An illustration by John White (d. 1593 CE) of a North American Indian warrior seen by the first English colonists who attempted to establish a settlement, Roanoke Colony, in 1585 CE (and again in 1587 CE). The colony was located in what is...
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Pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania
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Pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. Students were required to wear uniforms and had to surrender traditional attire upon their arrival.
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Indian Corn
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Indian Corn – also known as Flint Corn and Calico Corn – one of the three types of maize cultivated by the Native Peoples of North America.
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Indian Girl in White Blanket
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Indian Girl in White Blanket, painting by Robert Henri, 1917.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Photo by Daderot.
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Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, 1919
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Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Penobscot County, Maine, USA. Illustration from What to see in America by Clifton Johnson, 1919.
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Hare Indian Dog
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Hare Indian Dog, hand-colored lithograph by John Woodhouse Audubon, 1848.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Wyoming.
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East India Company
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The English East India Company (EIC or EEIC), later to become the British East India Company, was founded in 1600 as a trading company. With a massive private army and the backing of the British government, the EIC looted the Indian subcontinent...
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Ajatashatru
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Ajatashatru (c. 493/492 BCE - c. 462/460 BCE) was the second important king of the Haryanka Dynasty, who came to the throne of Magadha by deposing and executing his own father Bimbisara. The Haryanka Dynasty (c. 545/544 BCE - c. 413 BCE...
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Portuguese Cochin
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Cochin, located on the southwest coast of India, was a Portuguese colony from 1503 to 1663. Known to the Portuguese as Cochim, it was one of several important cities on India’s Malabar Coast and a great trade centre for spices like pepper...