Charles A. Zimmerman
1873 (ca)
Domestic Scene Among the Chippewa Indias.

Stereoview, half
British Museum
Museum number: Am,B37.28
 
Photograph (black and white), half of a mounted stereoscope photograph; a Chippewa woman carrying a baby on her back, sitting on an upturned canoe, with a child beside her feet, and a wigwam (domed single-room dwelling) on the left of the image; the woman wears a garment wrapped around herself and the baby, with a skirt underneath; the child also wears a blanket wrapped around themself; United States of America.
 
Curator's comments (Accessed: 6 June 2020)
Acquisition/Associated name: This image is stored in a box labelled as "William Blackmore". There is no associated documentation to determine that the collection was acquired from the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury in 1932, at the same time as Blackmore albums within the BM Pictorial Collection. SUBJECT: Three men seated; two are smoking long pipes.
SUBMITTED BY: Copy (5/67) from scrapbook of James E Taylor, "Our Wild Indians in Peace & War: Surveys, Expeditions, Mining & Scenery of the Great West" [Ca. 1863-1900], p.17, (Prints Cat. No. 4605)
 
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