Women Wearing Dresses Making Lace on Pillow

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Location Description: 

Saint Louis City, 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: 
P37592
Type: 
Print
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Studio portrait of two women wearing (stroud cloth?) dresses, one with elaborate ribbonwork on her sleeves, with beaded panels at the neckline, and multiple necklaces. Both wear beaded moccasins; woman on L wears embroidered or beaded leggings and woven sash and appears to have facepainting. Woman on R is seated, making lace on pillow positioned on chair, with other examples of lacework behind her. Probably participants at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

See P17543, P18203, P22762, P37592-3, N37928; additional caption info from NAA and the Field Museum.

Two women making lace. (See also B and C). CHIPPEWA. MINNESOTA. [crossed out: illegible].

Women are probably from Leech Lake Reservation, Cass County, Minnesota.

Handwritten on face of image: "Ojibwa"; handwritten on rev of print: "Lace Making Chippewa Indians Minn." ".TM"

Formerly P22762B

Location Description: 

Saint Louis City, 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: 
P37592
Type: 
Print