Michel Dumais - Portrait
Database ID | 24216 | |
Institution | University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections | |
Fonds/Collection | Morton Manuscripts Collection | |
Series | C550 | |
File/Item Reference | C550-1-24.1-Michel (Box 36) | |
Date of creation | 1885 | |
Physical description/extent | 1 photograph; etching; 8 x 11 cm | |
Number of images | 1 | |
Historical note | Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont. | |
Scope and content | Portrait etching of Michel Dumais. Note on photograph: "Michel Dumas (not Dumais) from an old newspaper 1885". | |
Copyright holder | Public domain | |
Copyright expiry date | Public domain | |
Other terms governing use and reproduction | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher. | |
Type | Archival | |
Primary Media | Photographs | |
Provenance Access Point | Morton, A.S. | |
Other notes | Taken from Forty Years in the North-West by W.J. Carter, p. 185. | |
Treaty boundaries | Treaty 6 | |
Cultural region | Plains | |
Names | Dumais, Michel | |
Subject | Metis -- History People -- Portraits Northwest Resistance | |
Date Range(s) | 1880-1889 | |
Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/24216 |