An Army commander stands on a platform with an Aboriginal boy on each side of him dressed in ceremonial clothes. A large crowd is gathered in the background. They are all inside the pallisade at Fort Battleford.
Sakaweo, a Cree man from the Sweetgrass band armed with a lever action repeater rifle. No date provided: likely late nineteenth, early twentieth century.
Sakaweo, a Cree man from the Sweetgrass band wearing a hat and sporting a shotgun. No date given but apparently late nineteenth early twentieth century.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Frederick Steele
Description
Sample cover for Brock Silversides' "The Face Pullers" featuring black and white photo of Blackfoot man identified as Black Plume, wearing embroidered coat.
The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Frederick Steele
Description
Black and white photo of Indigenous man, "Black Plume" , wearing embroidered coat and holding ceremonial stick.
From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
Image of John Diefenbaker in ceremonial head dress at South Saskatchewan River Dam Opening. A crowd surrounds him and an interviewer takes a statement from a man in ceremonial dress standing beside Diefenbaker.
Sioux Dance (probably Wahpeton Dakota people) in the Prince Albert district, NWT. Pictured is a large group of Aboriginal men and women in ceremonial clothing.
Sioux Dance (probably Wahpeton Dakota people) in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. Pictured is a large group of Aboriginal men and women in ceremonial clothing dancing on main street while white settlers look on.
A photograph of a young Aboriginal man standing in front of a teepee, taken in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. He wears a cowboy style hat, fringed chaps, a checkered shirt, neck tie, and several strings of beads around neck. He is a Dakota person, probably from Wahpeton.
Image of nine Aboriginal "Sioux" men and three boys, all dressed in ceremonial dance outfits. The photo has been coloured after the fact using a chromolithograph process.
Photograph entitled "Siupakio and Sikunnacio: Sarcee Indian Girls", from The Art League "Birth of the West" collection. It features two young indigenous women in traditional dress standing in front of a tipi on unidentified prairie.
A set of 16 photos of Barbara Ross of Stanley Mission smoking a moose hide. Making a raw hide into leather is a long, complicated, and skilled process: these photos show the final step in that process.
Black and white photograph of a group of South Peigans with brass instruments performing at the MacLeod parade. They wear headdresses and other traditional clothing.
A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. A large crowd stands near a decorated teepee. There are two men with headdresses and three men playing hand drums.
A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Five men on horseback are shown wearing headdresses. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169.
A photograph taken at Stand Off, Alta. on Blood Reserve. Shows a ceremony in which Alexander of Tunis, Governor General, was inducted into Kainai Chieftanship. Part of a series of photographs, LH 2166-2169. In this photograph, Percy Creighton stands on the left and John Cotton on the right, the medicine man performing initiation ceremony. Alexander of Tunis stands in the centre wearing a headdress.
Black and white photograph of a Peigan man from Montana riding a horse in traditional clothing bearing the American flag at the MacLeod Jubilee Parade.
A studio photograph of an Aboriginal man wearing traditional clothing and smoking a long pipe, taken in Prince Albert, NWT [1901]. According to Charmbury family records he is a Dakota man named Tasonke Hota or Grey Horse.
File contains 17 negatives showing Tawney Ahdeman of Prince Albert off posing for a portrait before leaving for an Indian Princess Pageant, on August 8, 1991.
Black and White photograph of a group of indigenous peoples in modified traditional clothing surrounding circle of men engaged in a tea dance ceremony. Teepee and drums in background.
A photograph of three Indian men in ceremonial dress and headgear posing with two non-native women at Carlton. Tents, flag and native and non-natives in background. Same photograph as record LH-347
Three Indian men in ceremonial dress (buckskin adorned with beadwork; head dress and moccasins) on-lookers and tipi in the background. Probably taken in Carlton at a Treaty celebration.
A photograph of three Indian men in ceremonial dress (buckskin decorated with beadwork, head dresses). One non-Native man and two non-Native children in foreground. Probably taken in Carlton at a Treaty celebration.
A photograph of three Aboriginal women in ceremonial regalia. At least 9 Indian women and Union Jack in background. The photo appears to have been taken in 1940s or 50s, location unknown.
Three Indians in ceremonial regalia, facing camera one behind the other. On right is Chief Mosquito (Sakimayopwat in Cree), an Assiniboia Indian, Chief of Grizzly Bear's head band. (Source: Wes Fineday, who says beadwork designs tell tribal affiliation)
A photograph of two First Nations men in traditional garb, and a City Official at a ceremony to celebrate the giving of a totem pole to the City of Prince Albert, 1975. The pole was carved by a First Nations man originally from British Columbia, and currently stands along the North Saskatchewan River near the Prince Albert Historical Museum.
A photograph of two First Nations men in traditional garb, and a City Official at a ceremony to celebrate the giving of a totem pole to the City of Prince Albert, 1975. The pole was carved by a First Nations man originally from British Columbia, and currently stands along the North Saskatchewan River near the Prince Albert Historical Museum.
A photograph of the personal effects of someone [Aboriginal] hanging on a large wooden rack and on tree branches in the Prince Albert District, NWT [1901]. A dog lies on the ground beneath the structure.
"Transfer of the head dress" ceremony where Governor General Viscount Alexander was made honorary chief of the Blood Indian band at Stand Off, Alberta. He became Chief Pit-O-To-Ka, or Chief Eagle Head. Several people wearing head dresses with a Mountie in formal uniform in the foreground.
"Transfer of the head dress" ceremony where Governor General Viscount Alexander was made honorary chief of the Blood Indian band at Stand Off, Alberta. He became chief Pit-O-To-Ka, or Chief Eagle Head. On stage during the presentation, with Mounties, flags, teepee in background, photographers (press) in foreground.
Local History Room Series PH 91 220 1 to 4 shows tribesmen of Great Plains at an encampment made for the 1939 Royal visit. The Aboriginal men show wear large head-dresses and beaded clothing. A picture of the camp (#4) shows a large crowd, painted teepees, Red Ensign flag and two Union Jack flags. Among significant figures were Gilbert Masketo, oldest chief, and Chief Joe Dreaver, M.M. A colourful figure was Harry Littlecrow of Dundurn Sioux. (None can be specifically identified)