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Title

Mistahi maskwa (Big Bear ca. 1825-1888), a Plains Cree chief, trading. 

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Item (linked) part of

Gilbert Bagnini collection [graphic material] (R8237-0-4-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Mistahi maskwa (Big Bear ca. 1825-1888), a Plains Cree chief, trading

Date(s)

1884

Place

Fort Pitt, N.W.T.

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 photograph ; image 118 x 187 mm: on mount 130 x 215 mm
Positive Paper Silver - albumen

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Included are (left to right): Four Sky Thunder, Okemow Peeayis (Sky Bird, Big Bear's third son), Matoose (seated), Napasis, Mistahi maskwa (Big Bear), Otto Dufresne, Louis Goulet, Stanley Simpson, Mr. Rowley (seated), Alex McDonald (behind wheel), Capt. R.B. Sledge, Mr. Edmund (seated), and Henry Dufrain

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Nil
Graphic (photo)
Copy negative PA-118768
90: Open
Item no. (creator)
25
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
SC9061
90: Open
Other accession no.
1977-241 NPC

Terms of use

Credit: O.B. Buell / Library and Archives Canada / PA-118768
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Expired

Additional name(s)

Photographer: Buell, Oliver, 1844-1910.

Additional information

Described by the MSTRCAGE project.

Exhibitions note
Aboriginal Portraits; Ed Tompkins, Jeffrey Thomas; National Archives: 1996.06.18-1996.11

Signatures and inscriptions
(Recto:) 61. Big Bear trading at Fort Pitt, N.W.T.

Subject heading

1. HISTORICAL EVENTS - 1885 - RIEL REBELLION.
2. INDUSTRIES - FUR TRADE.
3. BIG BEAR.
4. SASK. - FORT PITT - GENERAL.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

DAPDCAP89736

MIKAN no.

3192491