Anishinaabe actor and actress in canoe
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Record Details
- Title
- Anishinaabe actor and actress in canoe
- Published/Created
- [Petoskey, Michigan] : [Grace Chandler Horn], [between 1905 and 1915]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : platinum print ; 12.5 x 18 cm
- Notes
- 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, shell and bead necklaces, 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Actors--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Actresses--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Beadwork--1900-1920.
- Canoes--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Clothing & dress--1900-1920.
- Costumes--1900-1920.
- Dresses--1900-1920.
- Embroidery--1900-1920.
- Indigenous peoples--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Lakes & ponds--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Necklaces--1900-1920.
- Open-air theatrical productions--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Pageants--Michigan--1900-1920.
- War bonnets--1900-1920.
- Collection Title
- Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
- Collection Creator
- Pohrt, Richard, Jr.
- ID
- 874
- Barcode
- B10932297
- Call Number
- Photo Div Pohrt GCH.034
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- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 3904 x 5768
- File Size
- 742 KB
- Record
- 874
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/pohrt/x-874/gch034_002
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"Anishinaabe actor and actress in canoe". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/pohrt/x-874/gch034_002. In the digital collection Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 21, 2024.