Older Ojibwa Man in Traditional Clothing

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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: 
P17547
Type: 
Print
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Standing studio portrait of an older man wearing a white patterned cotton(?) shirt and dark tie, floral beaded apron, suspenders, dark trousers, mutiple (dentalium?) necklaces, hide moccasins(?), and holding a pipe bowl, and a dance or war club. He wears a feathered cap or turban-like headress. Probably participant at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Handwritten on front of print: "Ojibwa" (written name illegible); handwritten on rev of print: "Chippewa Minn."

Man in costume with dance club. Chippewa. Minnesota. Photo taken about 1900. Paul Warner Collection.

Location Description: 

Saint Louis, Missouri

Title: 
Ojibwa
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: 
P17547
Type: 
Print