Anishinaabe actor and actress in canoe

• 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); Actors > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Actresses > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Beadwork > 1900-1920.; Canoes > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Clothing & dress > 1900-1920.; Costumes > 1900-1920.; Dresses > 1900-1920.; Embroidery > 1900-1920.; Indigenous peoples > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Lakes & ponds > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Necklaces > 1900-1920.; Open-air theatrical productions > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Pageants > Michigan > 1900-1920.; War bonnets > 1900-1920; Indian; Round Lake; anishina*
• Online Access: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-874%5DGCH034_001; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/874/GCH034_001/!250,250; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:874:GCH034_001

Group portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actor and actress associated with Hiawatha Pageant posing in canoe. The woman wears costume including shell and bead necklaces, hair feather, bead embroidered dress, and headband. The man wears costume including war bonnet, shell and bead necklaces, and fringed hide shirt. Subjects likely dressed for roles of Minnehaha and Hiawatha. 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.; 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.