Left to right: (1) Fire Sky Thunder, (2) Sky Bird (Big Bear's Son), (3) Matoose, (4) Napasis, (5) Big Bear, (6) Angus McKay (Hudson's Bay Co.), (7) Dufrain (Hudson's Bay Co. Cook), (8) L'Goulet, (9) Stanley Simpson (Hudson's Bay Co.), (10) Alex McDonald, (11) Rowley, (12) Corp. Sleigh (killed at Cut Knife), (13) Edmund, (14) Henry Dufrain.
"Interior of Fort Pitt. This photograph was taken in 1884 probably by J. O. Cote. It shows five members of Big Bear's band as well as a number of traders and one member of the Northwest Mounted Police. Fort Pitt was located on the North Saskatchewan River just east of the present Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary and was destroyed by Indians in 1885 after it had been abandoned by its inhabitants." -- Information received from Hugh A. Dempsey, Archivist, Glenbow Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada letter of July 12, 1966.
Photographs depicting Native Americans/First Nations peoples (chiefly Cree and Chipewyan) in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Mackenzie, Canada, taken by Francis Harper on an expedition of the Geological Survey of Canada to Great Slave Lake in May-September 1914. Includes images of Cree, Ojibwa, Chipewyan, Salteaux, and Slavey people, as well as images of boats, encampments, and tea dances. Each of the photographs has an associated caption, given by either Harper or the Geological Survey of Canada.
Biographical/Historical note:
Francis Harper (1886-1972) was born in Southbridge, MA to a Canadian father and German mother. He attended Cornell University, receiving a BA in 1914 and a PhD in 1925. Harper made his first trip to northern Canada in 1914, as a zoologist for the Geological Survey of Canada. During World War I, he was stationed with the US Army 79th division in France, and then in New York and Maryland. He returned to Canada in 1920, but continued to travel throughout his life. Harper also worked to trace the travels of John and William Bertram through the American South and made numerous trips to study the people and environment of the Okefinokee Swamp.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4606
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs by Francis Harper held in the National Anthropological Archives BAE historical negatives.
The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds some of Harper's fieldbooks (SIA RU007434, SIA Acc. 12-443, SIA Acc. 12-581, and SIA Acc. 12-443).
The University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library holds the Francis Harper papers.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Reproductions of these photographs should include credit to the Geological Survey of Canada.
Photographs made by Humphrey Lloyd Hime for the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. Photographs show the Red River and prairie, settlements, farms, churches, watercraft, Cree and Ojibwa communities and individuals, and graves. The collection contains images of human remains.
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs made by Humphrey Lloyd Hime during the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858, depicting Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North. They include images of Cree and Ojibwa people, settlements, dwellings, camps, churches, watercraft, and graves.
Arrangement note:
Photographs are numbered and arranged in sections accordance with their order in Henry Youle Hind's 1860 folio, Photographs take at Lord Selkirk's Settlement of the Red River of the North. Section titles are also from folio.
Biographical Note:
Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903) was a photographer and surveyor with the firm "Armstrong, Beere, and Hime, Civil Engineers, Draughtsmen and Photographists" in Toronto, Ontario. In 1958 Hime was hired as the photographer for Henry Youle Hind's Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition.
Historical Note:
The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 was commissioned by the Canadian Government to establish a reliable trade route between Lake Superior and the Red River. The Hudson's Bay Company's permit to trade exclusively in the Canadian interior was set to expire in 1859. To procure an extension, a thorough investigation of the area to document its topography, vegetation, native life, and settlement potential was required. Under the charge of Professor Henry Youle Hind, a geologist and naturalist at Trinity College in Toronto, the explorers were instructed to obtain comprehensive geographic information that would help to create maps illustrating the natural and cultural features of the land between the Saskatchewan and Assiniboine rivers.
Note on Description:
Collection and image descriptions provided in this finding aid were compiled using the best available sources of information. Such sources include the creator's annotations or descriptions, collection accession files, primary and secondary source material (i.e. documents, publications, and websites), and subject matter experts. While every effort is made to provide accurate information, it is understood that errors may reveal themselves following review by other subject experts, and new information is welcome.
Photo Lot 4285, Humphrey Lloyd Hime Photographs of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Container:
Box 404, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1925 - 1927
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
ca 1880's-1890's ?
Biographical / Historical:
"Although I have no information on this group I notice that the poles do not go through the ears, indication that this may be an Assiniboine camp. The plains area in the background is typical of southern Saskatchewan. Therefore, if this [is] known to to be a Canadian view I would speculate that it shows an Assiniboine camp out from Qu'Appellein the 1880's or 1890's. I would date this because of the destitute condition of the people. We have views of lodges in a similar condition for that period. This, you understand is pure speculation but may serve as a guide in leading you to other sources." -- Information received from Hugh A. Dempsey, Archivist, Glenbow Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada letter of July 12, 1966.
Note from M. Blaker to Mr Ewers (12/2/66). This is one of 6 unidentified photographs left for copying by Dr Frost, whom you sent over to see me last September. It is reproduced in Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, 1964, page 220 with the caption, "The Famous Blackfoot Warrior, Two Crow." I would judge that this means Blackfoot Dakota, from the costume. Would you agree ??
Note to M. Blaker from Mr Ewers. Yes, I think he must be other than a Blackfoot Blackfoot. However, strangely enough, there is a reproduction of this same portrait in John E. Parsons The First Winchester The Story of the 1866 Repeating Rifle, page 145, captioned "Poundmaker, Chief of the Crees." And the portrait is attributed to "Courtesy of Royal Canadian Mounted Police." Do you have other portraits of Poundmaker with which you can make comparisons ? He was an historically important Plains Cree chief. Parson's interest was primarily in his gun - a good example of a Winchester model '66 ! You might check Mounted Police Museum, in Regina, Saskatchewan. I doubt if John would know if he was Cree or Sioux. John Ewers.
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this