Photographs of Chippewa Indians

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Photographs of Chippewa Indians

1905

https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.MS4635

Catalog Number 4635: (1) Tribe: Chippewa Description: Peter Gagnon (prounounced Gahn'ya). Photographer: Frances Densmore Date: 1905. (2) Chippewa Peter Gagnon with his second wife and an unidentified couple. Frances Densmore 1905. (3) Chippewa Mrs Gagnon with baby and unidentified woman (same woman in above photo). Peter Gagnon in background. Frances Densmore 1905. (4) Chippewa Joe Carribou, probably taken at Grand Marais. Frances Densmore 1905. (5) Chippewa Joe Carribou and family. Frances Densmore 1905. (6) Chippewa Joe Carribou and family. Frances Densmore 1905. (6A) Chippewa Two women of Joe Carribou's family Frances Densmore 1905. (7) Chippewa Supposed to be John (Cap) McKay, Indian Agent at Grand Portage in 1905. Woman may be Miss Densmore. (additional information, see correspondence.) Frances Densmore 1905. (8) Chippewa Joe Lewis May-maush-kow-aush. (additional information, see correspondence.) (9)--(15) Chippewa Unidentified photographs. Mr and Mrs Finger- See Davis correspondence with prints. Frances Densmore 1905.

16 Items, glossy prints

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Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957

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Frances Theresa Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887. Her professional interest in the music of Native Americans dates from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1905, she made her first visit to the Minnesota tribes and in 1907 began to record Indian music under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. During her fifty years with the Bureau, she recorded near...