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May Zhuc Ki Qua Portrait

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People: 
May Zhuc Ki Qua, May Zhuc Ke Ge Chig, May Zhuc Kwuk, Clear Sky
Location Description: 

Saint Louis, Missouri

Protocol: 
Ziibiwing Center Public Access
Community: 
Ziibiwing Center
Category: 
Photos of Anishinabek
Tribe(s): 
Collections: 
Minnesota Anishinaabe
Original Date: 
1904
Creator: 
Carpenter, Charles H.
Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
Ziibiwing Center
Identifier: 
P17542
Type: 
Print
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Studio portrait of the man May Zhuc Ke Ge Chig or May Zhuc Ki Qua or May Zhuc Kwuk or Clear Sky, wearing a cotton shirt, multiple dentalium bead necklaces, broad loop earrings, hair braid wrapped in patterned cloth, and either two beaded bandolier straps or a beaded vest. He wears a small tag on lapel which reads "267." Probably a participant at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Additional names per Earl Nyholm; See P22678 for profile view, and states that man's name is "May Zhuc Ki Qua or May Zhuc Kwuk or Clear Sky"

Man (May-zhuc-ke-ge-chig). Chippewa. White Earth. Minnesota. Photo taken about 1900. Paul Warner Collection.

Handwritten on front of print: "May Zhuc Ki Qua White Earth Minn."; handwritten on rev of print: "2" "Chippewa Minn."

People: 
May Zhuc Ki Qua, May Zhuc Ke Ge Chig, May Zhuc Kwuk, Clear Sky
Location Description: 

Saint Louis, Missouri

Title: 
May Zhuc Ki Qua White Earth Minn
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: 
1904
Creator: 
Carpenter, Charles H.
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Source: 
Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of the American Indian
Publisher: 
National Museum of the American Indian
Identifier: 
P17542
Type: 
Print