Anishinaabe actor with bow and arrow. / Grace Chandler Horn

Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actor associated with Hiawatha Pageant standing in forest wearing costume including war bonnet, shell and bead necklaces, tobacco bag, garters, fringed hide shirt, and leggings while aiming bow and arrow. Lacking mount.; Louis Oliver Armstrong...

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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-906%5DGCH066_001
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Summary:Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actor associated with Hiawatha Pageant standing in forest wearing costume including war bonnet, shell and bead necklaces, tobacco bag, garters, fringed hide shirt, and leggings while aiming bow and arrow. 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.; Label on verso: From the Collection of Indian Studies and Nature Prints By Grace Chandler Horn.; Blindstamp: 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.