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Chief Me-Jaw-Key-Osh/Something In The Air Gradually Falling To The Earth Portrait

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Man in costume. Something in the air. Chippewa. Handwritten in white ink on front of print: "1013."

People: 
Chief Me-Jaw-Key-Osh, Something In The Air Gradually Falling To The Earth
Location Description: 

Washington, DC

Protocol: 
Ziibiwing Center Public Access
Community: 
Ziibiwing Center
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1874
Creator: 
Bell, Charles Milton
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
Ziibiwing Center
Identifier: 
N34987
Type: 
negitive
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Seated studio portrait of Chief Me-Jaw-Key-Osh, or Something In The Air Gradually Falling To The Earth, wearing multiple feathers in his hair, unbraided hair, with two small braids, a dark coat(?), lower body wrapped in a dark blanket, posed as if smoking with a long pipe. Probably member of an 1874 Delegation.

People: 
Chief Me-Jaw-Key-Osh, Something In The Air Gradually Falling To The Earth
Location Description: 

Washington, DC

Title: 
1013
Protocol: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Public Access
Community: 
National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1874
Creator: 
Bell, Charles Milton
Rights: 
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier: 
N34987
Type: 
negitive