Anishinaabe actress near canoe
About this Item
Record Details
- Title
- Anishinaabe actress near canoe
- Published/Created
- [Petoskey, Michigan] : [Grace Chandler Horn], [between 1905 and 1915]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : platinum print ; mount 16.5 x 21 cm
- Notes
- Full length portrait of unidentified Anishinaabe Indian actress associated with Hiawatha Pageant standing on shore next to canoe wearing costume including hair feather, shell and bead necklaces, fringed hide dress, and headband while holding paddle. Tipis present in background. Subject likely dressed for role of Minnehaha.
- 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.
- Indigenous peoples--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.
- Canoes--Michigan--Petoskey--1900-1920.
- Clothing & dress--1900-1920.
- Costumes--1900-1920.
- Dresses--1900-1920.
- Embroidery--1900-1920.
- Indian encampments--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Indigenous peoples--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Necklaces--1900-1920.
- Open-air theatrical productions--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Pageants--Michigan--1900-1920.
- Tipis--1900-1920.
- First Nations--Ontario.
- Algonquian.
- Indigenous peoples--North America--Drama.
- Indigenous peoples--Michigan.
- Indians of North America--Ontario.
- Ojibwe.
- Odawa.
- Collection Title
- Richard Pohrt Jr. Collection of Native American Photography
- Collection Creator
- Pohrt, Richard, Jr.
- ID
- 894
- Barcode
- B10932338
- Call Number
- Photo Div Pohrt GCH.054
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- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
Technical Details
- Image Size
- 4912 x 5764
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 894
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/pohrt/x-894/gch054_002
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"Anishinaabe actress near canoe". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/pohrt/x-894/gch054_002. In the digital collection Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American Photography. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 13, 2025.