The Face Pullers: Ch.4 Images - Rest Room at the Calgary Stampede
Alternate Title
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Harry Pollard
Description
Black and white photograph of a group of men standing in front of a rest room set up by the Canada Life Assurance Company at the Calgary Stampede. Five of these men are Indigenous and wearing idealized versions of traditional clothing. The picture includes (from left) Pretty Young Man, Many Fire, Wolf Shoe, Chief Go Getun, Heavy Shield, and Haughton Running Rabbit. The Caucasian men are unidentified.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.