Ba-bah-wa-na-be-que Studio Portrait

Location Description: 

Saint Louis, Missouri

Description: 

Studio portrait of the elderly woman Ba Bah Wa Na Be Que, wearing a patterned cotton dress and multiple shell, bead, and dentalium necklaces. She wears a small tag on lapel which reads "413." Probably a participant at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Handwritten on front of print: "Ba-bah-wa-na-be-que"; handwritten on rev of print: "Chippewa Indian Minnesota" ".TW"

Ba Bah Wa Na Be Que, Chippewa woman. CHIPPEWA. MINNESOTA.

Location Description: 

Saint Louis, Missouri