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Two women working a skin. Covered tepee to right. Tepee frames in background.
Two women working a skin. Covered tepee to right. Tepee frames in background.
Object Number 2004.29.3319
Display Title Two women working a skin. Covered tepee to right. Tepee frames in background.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Nascapee Indians, Algonquian / # II 30. Tshinitivis(?) 1910. / Gift of W. B. Cabot. Marlboro St. Boston 1919."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • People and Family
  • Dwelling
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • tepee
  • Woman
  • skin processing
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderland; Tshimutivis
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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