Anishinaabe actors practicing archery. / GC Horn

• 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.; Archery > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Arrows > 1900-1920.; Beadwork > 1900-1920.; Bows (Weapons) > 1900-1920.; Clothing & dress > 1900-1920.; Costumes > 1900-1920.; Embroidery > 1900-1920.; Forests > Michigan > 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.; War bonnets > 1900-1920; Indian; Round Lake; anishina*
• Online Access: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-907%5DGCH067_001; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/907/GCH067_001/!250,250; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:907:GCH067_001

Group portrait of two unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actors associated with Hiawatha Pageant standing in forest before tipi wearing costumes including war bonnet, bead embroidered headband, and hide clothing. Individual wearing war bonnet instructs the other man who is holding bow and arrow.; 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: GC 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.