IDNO

P.8396.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Cree camp in Oxford House. 5663.” [typed text]

Cree camp at Oxford House, Manitoba, consisting of at least ten birch bark canoes beached on the lake shore, and a number of tepees in the background. Smoke from at least two camp fires are visible, as are a number of people amongst the tepees. In the distance is a pine? forest around the lake edges. [JD 22/4/2009]

Place

N America; Canada; Manitoba; Oxford House

Cultural Affliation

Cree

Named Person

Photographer

Bell, Robert A.

Collector / Expedition

Geological Survey of Canada; National Museum of Canada

Date

1880

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Canadian Museum of Civilization [National Museum of Canada]?Jenness, Diamond

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Oxford House is in Manitoba and was an important trading post. [Morgan Baillargeon, JD 8/5/2007]

Related Image: The original negative is held at the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the following information:
Title - Field work of R. A. Bell 1879 [graphic material]
Name - Bell, Robert, 1841-1917 
Publisher/Date - 1880
Summary - Field Work of R. A. Bell 1879; Indian Camp, Oxford House; Cree; Canoes, settlement pattern, tepees; 1880; Manitoba.
Control No. - 5663
[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]