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Picture taken through door of tent of young woman near A-frame drying rack.
Picture taken through door of tent of young woman near A-frame drying rack.
Object Number 2004.29.3237
Display Title Picture taken through door of tent of young woman near A-frame drying rack.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Montagnais, Algonquian / Montagnais girl. St. Augustine tribe, 1920. / Gift of William B. Cabot, Boston. November, 1920."
Keywords
  • People and Family
  • Ethnographic
  • Household
Subject
  • Woman
  • meat drying
Department Photographic
Date 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 Borderlands; Upper Eskimo River
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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