Anishinaabe actor in canoe with fishing rod

• 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.; 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.; Canoes > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Clothing & dress > 1900-1920.; Costumes > 1900-1920.; Fishing > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Hides & skins > 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-878%5DGCH038_002; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/878/GCH038_002/!250,250; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:878:GCH038_002

Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actor associated with Hiawatha Pageant standing in canoe while holding traditional fishing rod and wearing costume including war bonnet, skunk pelt, shell and bead necklaces, and fringed hide shirt. Subject likely dressed for role of Kwasind or Hiawatha.; 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.