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Object Number
2004.29.3285
Display Title
Naskapi man sitting on the ground
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Algonquian. / Wahpayo, 1905. 40 miles up Assiwaban River. Assiwaban means stay and wait or stop and wait, from a deer pass near the butt of land where it bends. Camp and wait for the migrations.
Nascapee Indians. Gift of W. B. Cabot, Marlboro St. Boston 1919."
Keywords
- Ethnographic
- People and Family
Subject
- Man
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; Kogaluk River
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 8.89 cm (3 x 3 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
William Brooks Cabot
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