IDNO

P.8394.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Ojibwa Indian building a Grand Medicine Lodge. 48853.” [typed text]

Midewiwin lodge possibly at Berens River?. [Sherry Farrell Racette, JD 8/5/2007]

A Midewiwin performance, Whitefish River, Lac Seul; consisting of a group of people moving around within a ‘Grand Medicine Lodge’. The Lodge consists of a wooden framework with a canvas? backing on one side, and branches hung over a low beam on the side nearer the camera. In the background are two canvas ridge pole tents. [JD 22/4/2009]

Place

N America; Canada; Ontario; Lac Seul; Whitefish River

Cultural Affliation

Ojibwa; Anishnaabe

Named Person

Photographer

Waugh, Frederick Wilkerson

Collector / Expedition

National Museum of Canada

Date

1920

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Canadian Museum of Civilization [National Museum of Canada]

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: The original negative is held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the following information:
Title - Field work of Frederick Wilkerson Waugh 1920 [graphic material]
Name - Waugh, F. W. (Frederick Wilkerson), 1872-1924 
Publisher/Date - 1920
Summary - Field work of Frederick Wilkerson Waugh 1920; Midewiwin performance, Whitefish River, Lac Seul; 1920; Ontario.
Control No. - 48853
[Source: http://geoweb.civilisations.ca:8001, JD 21/4/2009]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 21/4/2009]