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Ostinitsu - Last great chief of the Naskapi
Ostinitsu - Last great chief of the Naskapi
Object Number 2004.29.3283
Display Title Ostinitsu - Last great chief of the Naskapi
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Algonquian. / Ostinitsu 1905. Note caribou clothes. Place, 40 m. up Assiwaban River. / Gift of W. B. Cabot, Marlboro Street, Boston, 1919."
Keywords
  • Social and Political Figure
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Chief
Department Photographic
Date 1905
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderland; Assiniboine 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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