The Dreamer" / Grace Chandler Hor

Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actress associated with Hiawatha Pageant posing near canoe and wearing costume including hair feather, hide dress, and headband while holding canoe paddle. Subject likely dressed for role of Minnehaha. Lacking mount.; Louis Oliver Armstrong rec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horn, Grace Chandler, photographer.
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: William L. Clements Library 1905
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Online Access:http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-850%5DGCH010_001
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Summary:Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actress associated with Hiawatha Pageant posing near canoe and wearing costume including hair feather, hide dress, and headband while holding canoe paddle. Subject likely dressed for role of Minnehaha. Lacking mount.; Louis Oliver Armstrong recruited actors from Garden River First Nation Ojibwa in Ontario as well as from local Waganakising Ottawa communities in Northern Michigan to take part in his theatrical production "Hiawatha, or, Nanabozho: An Ojibway Indian Play" inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Song of Hiawatha." Armstrong had the show's location moved to Round Lake (also known as Wa-ya-ga-mug) near Petoskey, Michigan, in 1905.; Blindstamp: Grace Chandler Horn.; Title derived from contemporary inscribed image caption on verso.; "Garden River First Nation" variant names: Gitigaan-ziibi Anishinaabe, Ketegaunseebee.; "Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan" variant names: Waganakising Odawa, Waganakising Ottawa.; "Ojibwa Indians" variant names: Anishinaabe, Chippewa Indians, Ojibwe Indians.; "Ottawa Indians" variant names: Anishinaabe, Odawa Indians, Outaouak Indians, Tawa Indians.