Aboriginal Portraits from the National Archives of Canada
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Author/Creator
National Archives of Canada
Description
Folder contains three pages of text and portraits.
Looks at the history of two examples of regalia that traveled to France; one with a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1889 and the other worn by a performer at the Jardin d'Acclimation (a human zoo) in Paris in 1911.
Subject holding rifle, sitting on animal hide wearing traditional clothing. Shot in studio. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Historical note:
Robinson Lyndhurst Wadmore, who was born in England in 1855, entered the Canadian forces as a lieutenant in 1883 and served with the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance of 1885. Wadmore became a colonel in 1910. He died in Victoria, BC, in 1915.