Anishinaabe actress near tipi

• Main Author: Horn, Grace Chandler, photographer.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: William L. Clements Library 1905
• Subjects: Photographs shelf.; Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography.; Algonquian Indians.; Garden River First Nation.; Indians of North America > Drama.; Indians of North America > Michigan.; Indians of North America > Ontario.; Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians; Michigan.; Longfellow; Henry Wadsworth, > 1807-1882. > Song of Hiawatha; Ojibwa Indians.; Ottawa Indians.; Pictorialism (Photography movement); Actresses > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Beadwork > 1900-1920.; Clothing & dress > 1900-1920.; Costumes > 1900-1920.; Dead animals > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Deer > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Dresses > 1900-1920.; Embroidery > 1900-1920.; Hides & skins > 1900-1920.; Indian encampments > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Indigenous peoples > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Open-air theatrical productions > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Pageants > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Tipis > 1900-1920; Chandler; Indian; Round Lake; anishina*
• 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

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.