Dress and sleeves modeled by unknown woman at White Earth, 1917

Dress and sleeves modeled by unknown woman at White Earth, 1917

Ojibway Indian woman showing hair wrapped with fur. (Supplied Title)

10890-A (Negative Number); E97.1 p57 (Use Copy Locator Number)
10891-A (Negative Number) Reserve Album 96, page 39 (Use Copy Locator Number)
13186 (Negative Number) E97.1 p55 (Use Copy Locator Number)

Back and side views of unidentified woman standing in a field wearing a woolen strap dress ensemble with ribbon and floral beadwork trim. Dress has broad ribbon trim at hem, an inverted V motif of multiple rows of ribbon on center of skirt. Sleeves have ribbon trim on back and floral beadwork at cuffs. Floral spot stitch belt worn at waist. Hair is worn in two braids wrapped with otter fur ornaments.

Frances Densmore

1917

Anishinaabe

White Earth, MN

These photographs depict a strap dress ensemble whose dress and sleeves are currently in the collection of the NMNH.

Taken by Frances Densmore during fieldwork undertaken at White Earth and other Minnesota Anishinaabe communities in 1917. Densmore collected the ensemble at the same time.

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Black and White Photonegative

negative

6 h x 4 w inches