Photograph of Chief Meskokonaie (Meskokonaye or Red Robe) and his son Shelter-against-the-wind, Anishinaabeg (Chippewa) - 930.31.51_1

930.31.51_1

Photograph of Chief Meskokonaie (Meskokonaye or Red Robe) and his son Shelter-against-the-wind, Anishinaabeg (Chippewa)

Maker: George F. Blackburn
Medium:Photographic paper
Geography: Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Date: 1883
Dimensions:
16.3 x 10.2 cm
Object number: 930.31.51
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Evelyn H.C. Johnson; the Chiefswood Collection
Not on view
Description

Studio photograph of "Chief Meskokonaie (son of the celebrated Chief Moose-dung + commonly known by that name) and his son Shelter-against-the-wind, Red Lake Chippewas" (from back of picture). On the back is also written "Ogima Meskokonaie gaie o kwis Kewitagmoon 1883".

In the early 20th century, Evelyn H.C. Johnson, sister of poet, author, and performer E. Pauline Johnson, and a member of a prominent Six Nations Mohawk family, donated to the Royal Ontario Museum a large number of objects named the Chiefswood Collection after the name of the Johnson family home. In this collection, Evelyn Johnson created a remarkable record of her family over four generations, and of events that involved the Iroquoian people at Six Nations from the end of the American Revolution to the Six Nations Agricultural Fair of 1922.


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