Anishinaabe child actor in canoe

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Title: Anishinaabe child actor in canoe
Creator: Horn, Grace Chandler, photographer.
Published/Created: [Petoskey, Michigan] : [Grace Chandler Horn], [between 1900 and 1920]
Physical Description: 1 photograph : platinum print ; 10 x 15 cm
Notes: Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian boy associated with Hiawatha Pageant operating canoe and wearing costume including war bonnet and bead embroidered shirt and leggings. Subject dressed for role of young 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.; Title devised by cataloger.; "Garden River First Nation" variant names: Gitigaan-ziibi Anishinaabe, Ketegaunseebee.; "Ojibwa Indians" variant names: Anishinaabe, Chippewa Indians, Ojibwe Indians.; "Ottawa Indians" variant names: Anishinaabe, Odawa Indians, Outaouak Indians, Tawa Indians.; "Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Michigan" variant names: Waganakising Odawa, Waganakising Ottawa.
Names and 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); Beadwork--1900-1920.; Boys--Michigan--Petoskey--1900-1920.; Canoes--Michigan--Petoskey--1900-1920.; Child actors--Michigan--1900-1920.; Clothing & dress--1900-1920.; Costumes--1900-1920.; Embroidery--1900-1920.; Indigenous peoples--Michigan--1900-1920.; Lakes & ponds--Michigan--1900-1920.; Open-air theatrical productions--Michigan--1900-1920.; Pageants--Michigan--1900-1920.; War bonnets--1900-1920.
Genre: Landscape photographs 1900-1920.; Platinum prints 1900-1920.; Portrait photographs 1900-1920.
Collection Title: Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
Collection Creator: Pohrt, Richard, Jr.
ID: 857
Barcode: B10932260
Call Number: Photo Div Pohrt GCH.017
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Repository: William L. Clements Library

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Collection: Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
Image Size: 5776 x 3912
File Size: 690 KB
Record: 857
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/pohrt/x-857/gch017_002

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