Standing Studio Portrait Of Two Women

Location Description: 

Saint Louis City, Missouri

Description: 

Standing studio portrait of two women wearing (stroud cloth?) dresses, one with elaborate ribbonwork on sleeves and both with beaded panels at the neckline, and multiple necklaces, both holding narrow beadwork strips(?). Woman on R wears beaded moccasins; woman on L embroidered or beaded leggings. Both have ribbonwork at hem of their dresses. Probably participants at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Additional caption info from NAA and the Field Museum.

"Ojibwa" handwritten on face of image; handwritten on rev of print: "14465" "Chippewa Indians Minnesota."

Location Description: 

Saint Louis City, Missouri