Anishinaabe infant in hammock. / Grace Chandler Horn
Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian infant associated with Hiawatha Pageant laying in hammock in forest. Log cabin present in background. Subject likely dressed for role of infant Hiawatha. Extensive hand coloring.; Louis Oliver Armstrong recruited actors from Garden River First...
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William L. Clements Library
1905
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Online Access: | http://name.umdl.umich.edu/IC-POHRT-X-941%5DGCH101_001 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/thumb/pohrt/941/GCH101_001/!250,250 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/pohrt:941:GCH101_001 |
Summary: | Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian infant associated with Hiawatha Pageant laying in hammock in forest. Log cabin present in background. Subject likely dressed for role of infant Hiawatha. Extensive hand coloring.; 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: Grace Chandler 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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