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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
- Ethnographic
- Social and Political Figure
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
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
William Brooks Cabot
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