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National Anthropological Archives
Film Research Company Photographs
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4645
- Creators:
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Film Research Company
- Dates:
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1960-61
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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5 Prints
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Photos of Chippewa Indians and of a Chippewa bark lodge, taken at MIlle Lacs Indian Village, Onamia, Minnesota, 1960-61. One print is in color.
Scope and Contents
Catalog Number 4645: (1) Tribe: Chippewa Caption on Print: Wigwam in winter. Fort Mille Lacs, Onamia, Minnesota, 1960. Wigwam has elm bark sides, birch bark top. Blanket for door. [Color photo.] (2) Chippewa Grandma Naquanabe (Ge-be-sen) weaving cedar bark mat (Geseg a-na-kin). Fort Mille Lacs Indian Village... Photographer: Photo by Film Research Co., Onamia Minnesota. (3) Chippewa Ge-be-sen preparing barwood bark. Bark, we-bub, prepared like large rolls to right of picture are soaked for two weeks in swamp to make ah-sig[?]a-ban, a tough fiber for thread, rope and baskets. (4) Chippewa Removing birch bark from a tree, 1961. Na-gen-a-gesheg and Sha[?]win. Fort Mille Lacs. (5) Chippewa Now-ah-qua-gesheg[?] (Jim Hawks) and his squaw Wa-kow-sa-way (Julia) in birchbark canoe he built at Fort Mille Lacs Indian Village, 1960.
Administration
Custodial History
Gift of Mr Sherman A. Holbert, Fort Mille Lacs, Onamia Minnesota, April 17, 1962. Correspondence in Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Office Files.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
"If reproduced or resold, credit: Fort Mille Lacs Co., Inc., and Film Research Co., Onamia, Minnesota.
Citation
Manuscript 4645, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4645
Local Note
Local Note
Filed: Original Prints, Chippewa.
Keywords
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