Five Sioux Indians Posing, Prince Albert District, NWT.

A photograph of four Aboriginal men and a young boy (probably all Wahpeton Dakota) posing for the camera in the Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. The boy stands in a Red River style cart and there is a teepee in the background.

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.