IDNO

P.8718.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Ed-aw-ig-il-gi. (face)” [manuscript in ink].

Studio half-length seated profile portrait of Chippewa man, Edawigijig (or Ed-aw-ig-il-ig) wearing a white shirt, vest, and jacket, a peace medal, and a beadwork bag.

Place

N America; United States of America; District of Columbia; Washington D.C.

Cultural Affliation

Native American Indian; Northern Plains Indian; Chippewa; Ojibway [historically Pembina]

Named Person

Ed-aw-ig-il-gi; or Edawigijig

Photographer

Bell, Charles Milton

Collector / Expedition

Date

1880

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Bureau of American Ethnology

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: Information in the Place field refers to the place where the photograph was taken. The place where the subject represented lived is:
North Dakota; United States of America; North America; America

Date: Information in the date field refers to the date of the creation of the image. The date when this copy of the image was made is uncertain.

Related Image: Same image held by NAA, Smithsonian Institution, 546-A [NAA, Smithsonian Institution glass negative number for this image]
Additional information
Name of person: Edawigijig.
Group: Chippewa (Pembina band).
Date of original: 1880.
Creator/Photographer: Charles Milton Bell.
Misc. Info.: Lived at Turtle Mt. North Dakota. NOTE; “547-A” is front; “547-B” is profile. Our Neg is broken.
[Source: Paula Fleming, Photo Archivist, National Anthropological Archives (NAA), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., August 1999]

Related Image: Same image held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, with the following information:
Creator: Bell, Charles Milton 1848-1893
Title: Portrait (Profile) of Edawigijig with Peace Medal and Bag 1880
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 004 in x 007 in mounted on 007 in x 009 in photograph
Black and white Glass negative
Place of creation: District of Columbia Washington
Cite as: BAE GN 00547A 06146801
Local Notes: Broken Negative, Repaired
Culture: Chippewa
Subject-Name: Delegation, 1880
Local Number: NAA INV 06146801, OPPS NEG 00547 A
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 8/5/2007]

Biographical Information: EdawigiJig was born at Bad River Indian Reservation, Wisconsin. EdawigiJig is mentioned in the following reports: “50th Congress, Second Session (1888-9), G.P.O. Serial No. 2624, Senate Reports, Vol. 6, Doc. No. 271, "Indian Traders, Chippewa Timber Contracts," p. 1265, Bad River allotment, NW 1/4 SE 1/4, 17-46-2, 40 acres” [Source: Ojibwe Genealogical Information, www.ojibwe.info/, JD 8/5/2007]

Related Image: EdasigiJig was also photographed by William Henry Jackson, with the catalogue entry”
“1.9.3 Edawigilig. Olibwa.”
[Source: William Henry Jackson Photographs
"Illustrations of Typical North American Indians" www.lib.uiowa.edu, JD 8/5/2007]

Additional information added to this record by G.Boast, 09/1999; H.Cornwall-Jones, 12/1999.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 8/5/2007]