A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169. In this photograph, Percy Creighton stands in centre holding "weasel tail robe", formerly owned by Red Crow, Blood war chief and signator to Treaty 7. Robe now in Alberta provincial Museum. John Cotton, kneeling at right, is medicine man performing initiation ceremony.
Contributor/Editor
[Saskatoon Public Library Local History Room]
Open Access
Yes
Primary Source
Yes
Publisher
[University of Saskatchewan Archives]
Publication Date
1946-1952
Credit
Saskatoon Public Library Local History Room, General Photographs Collection, LH-2168; records from Our Legacy site, http://scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy
First Nation, Metis, Inuit Locations
Resource Type
Images -- Photographs
Format
Image
Language