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Naskapi women stretching a skin, with child in background
Naskapi women stretching a skin, with child in background
Object Number 2004.29.3304
Display Title Naskapi women stretching a skin, with child in background
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Nascapee Indians, Algonquian / # I-26 Lookout at Mistinipi crossing 1906. / Gift of W. B. Cabot. Marlboro St. Boston 1919."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • People and Family
Subject
  • Child
  • skin processing
  • Woman
Department Photographic
Date 1906
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic Shield + Mackenzie borderlands: Mistinipi
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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