Emma and Susan Bear Spinning
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Image of two young women sitting at spinning wheels outside a house. Inscription reads: "Emma Bear and Susan Bear. Little Pine Res. Spinning"
Historical note:
An umiak is an Inuit skin boat.Black and white photograph of a woman and infant, subtitled "a 'Papoose'".From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Black and white photograph of Wanda Gilmour, an Indigenous girl adopted and educated by reverend Neil Gilmour. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.