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Little Black Bear, Daughter of Cree Chief, Black Bear

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Date:

18 August 1881

Reference:

Box number: A090-01/X1

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2838946

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Sydney Prior Hall fonds

Little Black Bear, Daughter of Cree Chief, Black Bear
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

18 August 1881

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 drawing : pencil on laid paper
Support 18.000 x 11.200 cm
Image 18.000 x 11.200 cm
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Artist: Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922

Depicted: Little Black Bear

Little Black Bear
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General note:

Removed from: Sketchbook: "Canada 1878 North-West 1881"

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Mirror of Canada Past. Curators: Staff of the National Archives, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.06.01 - 1972.09.25, cat. no.: no. 37-10.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Dated., Inscription: in pencil, recto u.l.: Little Black Bear / daughter of Cree Chief; u.r.: blue beads / yellow stripe / green.; c.r.: 8; l.l.: 18 Augt.; in pencil, verso u.l.: After much coy indecision This little lady / was ... to throw off her blanket / before me. She disclosed a tiny little / figure clad in a mantle of blue / beads [^striped] with lines of yellow & green / thrown over a leathson (?) (moose or / Cariboo [^leather] I suppose) Caftan. prized (?) / with strips in the ... Indian / way. This was bound tight at / the waist by a belt, studded with / a big steel buckle. She lifted the / skirt to shew me her beaded moccasins / & leggings. Her arms / were covered with bangles and her / hands with rings -.silver. / She was 20 & the only [^p...] daughter / of Black Bear a Cree chief.
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Cris (Indiens)

Indian

Portraits

Cree Indians
Source:

Private

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1984-045 X PIC
00143
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
No restrictions on physical access, or on use for reproductions or for publication

Box [1984-045]

[Consultation 90 Open]

A090-01/X1 Item no. assigned by LAC 143

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1984-045]

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C-012945 Item no. assigned by LAC 143

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1984-45-143
Copyright: Expired

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