Studio Portrait of Indian Man

A studio photograph of an Aboriginal man wearing traditional clothing and smoking a long pipe, taken in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. According to Charmbury family records he is a Dakota man named Tasonke Hota or Grey Horse.

Historical note:

Theodore Henry James Charmbury or T. H. J. as he was known, was an assistant to photographer Samuel Gray in Prince Albert for two years before starting his own studio there in 1902. He moved to Saskatoon in 1918, and was mainly a portrait photographer there until he retired in 1938. He photographed several Native leaders including Fine Day and Kahneepotaytayo. Two fires (1931, 1942) destroyed a huge portion of his negative collection.