Anishinaabe actress near tipi
Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actress associated with Hiawatha Pageant posing laying outside tipi decorated with animal hides and wearing costume including hair feather, shell and bead necklaces, bead embroidered hide dress, and headband. Body of deer (possibly taxidermy sp...
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William L. Clements Library
1905
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Online Access: | http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-861%5DGCH021_002 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/861/GCH021_002/!250,250 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:861:GCH021_002 |
Summary: | Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actress associated with Hiawatha Pageant posing laying outside tipi decorated with animal hides and wearing costume including hair feather, shell and bead necklaces, bead embroidered hide dress, and headband. Body of deer (possibly taxidermy specimen) also present outside tipi entrance. Subject likely dressed for role of Minnehaha.; 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.; Contemporary inscribed signature: Grace Chandler Horn.; Title devised by cataloger.; "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. |
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