M0008904EA: Pipe bundle resting on a travois outside a tipi / M0008904EB: Medicine bundle suspended outside a tipi

Date:
13 July 1943
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Description

Two images on one negative: a photograph from an unknown source of a Tsuut?ina (formerly Sarcee) pipe bundle resting on a horse travois outside the owner's tipi and a photograph from an unknown source of the tipi of a First Nation medicine man, with his medicine bundle suspended outdoors. The man is referred to in the original photo register as a "Blood Indian", possibly meaning the Kainai Nation

Publication/Creation

13 July 1943

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item By Appointment.

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Location of original

Wellcome Library; GB.
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