The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
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Author/Creator
Harry Pollard
Description
Photograph of the interior of a Blackfoot Medicine Lodge, with a medicine pipe bundle in the center, and a medicine pipe bowl hanging on the wall. Four men sit around the pipe bundle, facing the camera.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
An image of a large gathering of Aboriginal people seated in a circle. Many are wrapped in blankets and there are some large wooden stick structures holding large pieces of fabric, presumably for shade from the sun. Colours have been added to the photograph in a chromolithograph process.
Booklet of a study of Vuntakutchin people living at Fort Egbert, Alaska. Topics include habitations, annual movements, food, fishing and hunting, government, funeral ceremonies and names.