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"Chief Shoppenagon outside his home, Grayling, Iosco county, Michigan, on the Au Sable River

Catalog Data

Creator:
Wasson  Search this
Extent:
1 Photograph (4x6 1/4 in)
Culture:
Odawa (Ottawa)  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Place:
Michigan -- Grayling
Date:
1905-1910
Scope and Contents:
Chief, standing with gun, Indian dress. Old woman and small boy seated on ground. Clapboard dwelling.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.44428 E
Local Note:
Information from Richard Pohrt, Flint, Michigan; friend of his gave Chief Shoppenagon his second gorget at time of an Indian celebration. Pohrt has postcard like this, postmarked 1910.
Tribal identification from Stewart Brand, 1965, who stated that Shoppenagon gave a name in Ottawa language to Brand's grandmother.
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Odawa  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
See more items in:
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Wasson
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3fcfc38fc-df2f-4ee4-bdc7-86d341292ccf
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-176-ref10496