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"Today a tourist Mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled considerably through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the attention of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep-sided gorges and fantastic rock formations, H. H. Bennett now turned his…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008University of Wisconsin Press · 194 pages · 9780299226008
Ho Chunk IndiansPortrait photographyPortraitsCriticism and interpretationHistoryPhotographic criticismWisconsin, description and travelHo-Chunk Indians