Anishinaabe actor

Half length studio portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actor associated with Hiawatha Pageant wearing costume including war bonnet decorated with beadwork, bead embroidered breast plate with American flag designs, fringed hide shirt, and shell and bead necklaces. Subject likely dressed for r...

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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-926%5DGCH086_001
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Summary:Half length studio portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actor associated with Hiawatha Pageant wearing costume including war bonnet decorated with beadwork, bead embroidered breast plate with American flag designs, fringed hide shirt, and shell and bead necklaces. Subject likely dressed for role of Osseo.; 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.