Older Anishinaabe actress with infant

• 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.; Child actors > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Clothing & dress > 1900-1920.; Costumes > 1900-1920.; Cradleboards > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Embroidery > 1900-1920.; Forests > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Grandparents > 1900-1920.; Indigenous peoples > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Infants > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Log cabins > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Older people > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Open-air theatrical productions > Michigan > 1900-1920.; Pageants > Michigan > 1900-1920; Indian; Round Lake; anishina*
• Online Access: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-920%5DGCH080_001; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/920/GCH080_001/!250,250; https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:920:GCH080_001

Group portrait of unidentified older Anishinaabe Indian actress and infant associated with Hiawatha Pageant posing in forest. The woman wears costume including dress and shell and bead necklaces; likely dressed for role of Nokomis. The infant rests in cradleboard attached to woman's back; likely dressed for role of infant Hiawatha. Log cabins 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.