Woman Standing on Doorstep of Wooden Building

Woman Standing on Doorstep of Wooden Building

N03009 and NMAI.AC.001.035

A female descendant of Maungwadaus wears pageant regalia consisting of a Haudenosaunee style skirt with a tunic that has deep pointed scallops at hem and sleeve cuffs. She wears Maungwadaus's bear tooth necklace and a bandolier bag made in the unique style common to two other bags with provenance from Maungwadaus's family. The tunic, necklace and bag are in the collection at the American Museum of Natural History.

Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971)

1907

Mississauga Anishinaabe

Muncey First Nation, Ontario

Numerous items of regalia associated with Maungwadaus and his family are in the Dr. Oronhyatecka Collection at the Royal Ontario Museum, and at the American Museum of Natural History.

Mark Harrington probably took these photos on a collecting expedition.

Related images at NMAI include N03009, P07454, P16008. L00243, see also: N3008].

For discussion of Maungwadaus's regalia see Cory Willmott. 2003. An Ojibway Artifact Unraveled: The Case of the Bag with the Snake Skin Strap. Textile History 34(1):74-81. For image published see Ruth B. Phillips. 1998. Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900, Seattle: University of Washington Press.

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