Anishinaabe actor and actress in canoe. / GC Horn
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 and fringed hide shirt. Sub...
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William L. Clements Library
1905
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Online Access: | http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-919%5DGCH079_002 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/919/GCH079_002/!250,250 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:919:GCH079_002 |
Summary: | 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 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.; 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. |
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