Object Details
Names
Blackbird
Scope and Contents
Full-length studio portrait, Blackbird seated, center. Feather headdress, gorgets, beaded sash, leggings and other items of native dress.
sova.naa.photolot.176_ref10497
Local Numbers
OPPS NEG.44428 K
Local Note
Tribal identification from Stewart Brand, 1965, who stated that Shoppenagon gave a name in Ottawa language to Brand's grandmother.
5/19/61: Dr Charles J. Meyers, Detriot, Michigan, identified this man as Shop-pen-e-gonse of Grayling, Michigan. Says there is a portrait of him in the Shop-pen-e-gonse Hotel in Grayling. Pronunciation: Shapenega'nz.
Black and white copy negative
Topic
Language and languages -- Documentation
Odawa
Indians of North America -- Northeast
Culture
Odawa (Ottawa)
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Extent
1 Photograph (4x6 1/4 in)
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Bibliography
Reproduced in "Indians in Michigan," a picture kit published by the Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing, 1962, with above title.
Genre/Form
Photographs
NAA.PhotoLot.176_ref10497
Large EAD
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NAA.PhotoLot.176
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1628267668517-1628267670686-5