BREAKFAST ON THE PRAIRIE. ...

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BREAKFAST ON THE PRAIRIE

Montana the temperature might already be 90 degrees. Two Assiniboin families are beginning their day. In the left foreground three women tend to breakfast, apparently soup, boiling in an iron kettle suspended from a tripod over a small fire. Two hungry boys await the results. Two younger sisters are just leaving the tipi. A pair of dogs hope to be included. In the right background another family is similarly engaged. At the left is seen the framework of another tipi for a family newly arrived. The canvas tipi cover and their belongings lie on the ground. It is likely the standing woman gazing at this uncompleted task is the new arrival, invited to eat with the neighbors. Grey-green sage dots the prairie.

Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches

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