Unidentified Minnesota Chippewa Man

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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: 
P17544
Type: 
Print
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Studio portrait of an unidentified older man, wearing a dark cotton(?) shirt with elaborate beaded strips with hexagon patterns on the front, and elaborate beaded and fringed strip on one shoulder. He wears a cloth turban-like headdress with tall feather, and a small tag on lapel which is illegible. His lower body and one shoulder is wrapped in a dark blanket. Probably a participant at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

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

Handwritten on face of print: "Ojibwa (name[?] is illegible)"; handwritten on rev of print: "Chippewa Minn."

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: 
P17544
Type: 
Print