B.F. Childs
19th century (late)
Home of Old Nokomis [Chippewa]

Stereoview, half
British Museum
Museum number: Am,B37.7
 
Published by: C B Brubaker, Marquette, Hitch (?)
 
Photograph (black and white), half of a mounted stereoscope photograph; portrait of an Ojibwa woman standing in front of a tipi, wearing a shirt and long skirt; a basket partially visible on the far left of the image; garments hanging from a wooden pole on the right of the image; Minnesota(?), United States of America.
 
Curator's comments (Accessed: 5 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.
 
Context: "Nokomis" is the name of Nanabozho's grandmother in the Ojibwe traditional stories and was the name of Hiawatha's grandmother in Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha. "Nookomis" in Ojibwa translates to "my grandmother". The inscription seems most likely to be referring to the fact that the woman is a grandmother, or creating an association with Ojibwa traditional stories.
 
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