Anishinaabe actresses 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); Actresses > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Beadwork > 1900-1920.; Canoes > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Clothing & dress > 1900-1920.; Costumes > 1900-1920.; Indian encampments > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Indigenous peoples > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Lakes & ponds > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Open-air theatrical productions > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Pageants > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Tipis > 1900-1920; Indian; Round Lake; anishina*
• Online Access: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-915%5DGCH075_002; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/915/GCH075_002/!250,250; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:915:GCH075_002

Group portrait of two unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actresses associated with Hiawatha Pageant seated in canoe. Subject at front of canoe wears costume including hair feather, headband, and shell and bead necklaces; likely dressed for role of Minnehaha. Tipis present in background. 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.