Two young women with wigwam and model tipi with pair of dolls

Two young women with wigwam and model tipi with pair of dolls

Two Indian women in front of wigwam. (Supplied title)

E97.31 r96 (Locator Number) 35827 (Negative Number)

Two young women stand in front of a bark and mat wigwam with a model birch bark tipi and a pair of male and female dolls dressed in buckskin regalia. The women are dressed in flapper style dresses with white stockings and Mary Jane shoes. One of them wears a finger woven sash. There is a model T and a small tipi in the background.

1925

Anishinaabe

Mille Lacs, MN

Probably taken at the Ayers' trading post.

Tourism

Willmott, Cory. 2021. Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress. Winterthur Portfolio 55(2/3): 121-85, Fig. 22.

A brief history of the Ayer Trading Post is presented by Carissa Thomas, MNopedia, 12/17/2018, https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2018/12/mille-lacs-indian-trading-post-became-a-lot-more-than-just-a-trading-post/

Marcia Anderson and Kathy Hussey-Arnston, Ojibway Beadwork Traditions in the Ayer Collection, Minnesota History 48, no. 4 (1982): 154.

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