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Object Number
2004.29.3248
Display Title
Old woman carrying burden on back, child on portage.Upper Paradise river
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Montagnais. Algonguian. / St. Augustin Tribe - Indian woman 66 yrs. old on portage. Upper Paradise River. Aug. 1920. Labrador. / Gift of William B. Cabot, Boston, October, 1920."
Keywords
- Ethnographic
- Land Transport
Subject
- Woman
- Child
- burden
- carrying
Department
Photographic
Date
August 1920
Artist
William Brooks Cabot
Culture
- Montagnais
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Newfoundland and Labrador
Additional Geographic Terms
Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderlands; Labdrador
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
William Brooks Cabot
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