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The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - Blackfeet Boys with Bows and Arrows
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - "Cree Indians, Blanket Costume"
The Face Pullers: Ch. 1 Images - "'Emonis' -- The Otter -- Sarcee Indian, & Camp"
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - "Group of Blackfeet with Missionaries"
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - "Indian Camp, Winter"
The Face Pullers: Ch.1 Images - Old Sun, Blackfoot Chief, and Woman
Historical note:
Old Sun shared power with Crowfoot as head chief of the Blackfoot, but he was not as well-known. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - "Cocona, Sinipawksoyissi, Sarcee Squaw".
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - :"'Pointed Cap,' Cree Indian, with His Fifth Squaw"
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images -:"Sinipawksoyissi, Sarcee Indian".
The Face Pullers: Ch.2 Images - "Two Cree Indians".
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 Images - "Knitting and Spinning at St. Albert School"
Black and white photograph of a class of young Indigenous girls learning to knit and spin at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 images - "Learning Saddlery and Bootmaking, St. Albert School, 1898"
Black and white photograph of a class of Indigenous youths learning saddlery and bootmaking at the St. Albert industrial school. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch.3 images - Reserve Indians
Black and white photograph of four Indigenous men wearing western clothing, taken on a reserve in Alberta. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 Images - St. Albert Brass Band
Black and white photograph of the members of the St. Albert Brass Band posing with instruments. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Boys at Work, Industrial School St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Dairying, Industrial School, St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "High River Industrial School Football Team"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos "Knitting and Spinning Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
The Face Pullers - Unused Photos - "Sewing Department, Industrial School, St. Albert"
Fort Pelly trading post
Historical note:
Fort Pelly was located at the Indian Elbow of the Assiniboine River located eight miles south-west of the site of the present village of Pelly. Fort Pelly was built in 1824 by the Hudson's Bay Company. The high palisade fence that surrounded the Fort in 1872 has been replaced by a plank fence in this photo.