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Object Number 2004.29.3236
Display Title Pike and suckers drying loon
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Montagnais, Algonquian / Coxsipper River, Labrador. Labrador. Pike and suckers drying. Loon. Aug. 1920. / Gift of William B. Cabot, Boston. November, 1920."
Keywords
  • People and Family
  • Household
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Boy
  • Man
  • meat drying
Department Photographic
Date August 1920
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Montagnais
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Newfoundland and Labrador / Labrador
North America / Canada / Newfoundland and Labrador
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Border lands; Upper Eskimo area, near.; Labrador,
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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