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Object Number 2004.29.3250
Display Title Stations on six mile portage - Coxsipper river to Eskimo River.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Montagnais. Algonguian. / Stations on 6 m. portage - Coxsipper River to Eskimo River, Labrador. Montagnais Indians - St. Augustin tribe. August 1920. / Gift of William B. Cabot, Boston, October, 1920."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Land Transport
Subject
  • station
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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Sweat Bath. St. Augustin Indians. Wapannekaee Lake (White Sand) Coxsipper river.
2004.29.3232 Sweat Bath. St. Augustin Indians. Wapannekaee Lake (White Sand) Coxsipper river.
Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador
Old woman carrying burden on back, child on portage.Upper Paradise river
2004.29.3248 Old woman carrying burden on back, child on portage.Upper Paradise river
Newfoundland and Labrador
Montagnais people having lunch at end of portage
2004.29.3252 Montagnais people having lunch at end of portage
Newfoundland and Labrador
Five men travelling down white water section of river in canoes
2004.29.3251 Five men travelling down white water section of river in canoes
Newfoundland and Labrador
Two figures walking across meadow. One with burden on back and other with canoe
2004.29.3249 Two figures walking across meadow. One with burden on back and other with canoe
Newfoundland and Labrador
Woman carrying burden on back and child on portage
2004.29.3247 Woman carrying burden on back and child on portage
Newfoundland and Labrador
Girl squatting by river. (Native style hat)
2004.29.3233 Girl squatting by river. (Native style hat)
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador
Pike and suckers drying loon
2004.29.3236 Pike and suckers drying loon
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador
Girl squatting by river slitting and cleaning (?) fish
2004.29.3234 Girl squatting by river slitting and cleaning (?) fish
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador
Fire frame with three cast iron pots suspended by chains over fire
2004.29.3238 Fire frame with three cast iron pots suspended by chains over fire
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador
Bent-bough frame in woods.Montagnais Indians, St. Augustin River
2004.29.3245 Bent-bough frame in woods.Montagnais Indians, St. Augustin River
Newfoundland and Labrador
Two women paddling a canoe
2004.29.3230 Two women paddling a canoe
Newfoundland and Labrador
Labrador