Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake

 
Database ID30143
InstitutionPrince Albert Historical Society
Fonds/CollectionPAHS Archives collection
SeriesT series
File/Item ReferenceT series-T-503-10 (T series)
Date of creation[1885?]
Physical description/extent1 photograph; b&w; 15 x 10 mm
Number of images1
Scope and contentImage of four Aboriginal male chiefs and an non-Aboriginal man posing for the camera; [indoor scene]. Note with photo: "Cree Chiefs from Crooked Lake. Seated - Flying in a Circle, Big Child Star Blanket. Standing - O'Soup a Blackfoot, P. Hourie an interpreter. Taken at Brantford, Ontario, at unveiling of Brant memorial Oct. 13, 1886. O'Soup Chippewa Chief / P. Hourie Interpreter / Front: Flying in a Circle / Big Child Mistawasis / Star Blanket Ahtahkakoop / names according to two of Rev. Edward Ahenakew's sisters who identified left to right Ahtahkakoop (Star Blanket), Flying in a Circle, Kahkewistahaw, Mistawasis (Big Child)."
Copyright holderPublic domain
Copyright expiry datePublic domain
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TypeArchival
Primary MediaPhotographs
Provenance Access PointPAHS Archives
Other notesSAB R-B2837.
PlaceBrantford, Ontario, Canada
Treaty boundariesTreaty 4
Cultural regionPlains
NamesBig Child ** [mistawâsis
Brant, Joseph, ca. 1742-1807 (Chief)
Hourie, Peter
Kahkewistahaw (Chief)
Mistawasis (Chief)
O'Soup (Chief)
Thayendanegea
SubjectChiefs
Northwest Resistance
Date Range(s)1880-1889
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