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Babtiste E-cho-chi-chu-tho

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1820

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963243

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Babtiste E-cho-chi-chu-tho
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1820

Place:

Likely present-day Northwest Territories:

Place of creation:

Northwest Territories

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

no language

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Portrait of Baptiste E-cho-chi-chu-tho, a child, likely Dene but possibly Cree or Métis. He is seated holding a cup and has a Métis sash tied around his waist. There is also a snowshoe depicted at the top of the folio.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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General note:

A Cree colleague of the researcher David Pelly suggests that this person is likely Cree, not Chippewyan.

Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 24 recto) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

C-145870 has been designated to represent the blank folio 23 verso. A colour transparency of folio 23 verso is available only in the form of the double page spread C-145872. This page has been copied as C-141398

Exhibitions note:

Exhibition title: Overland to the Arctic with Franklin/En route vers l'arctique avec Sir John Franklin (reproductions/réproductions). Curators: Eva Major-Marothy, National Archives of Canada. Further venue: Montreal, Hoechst and Celanese HQ.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed., Inscription: in pen and brown ink, recto, t.: "Babtiste E-cho-chi-chu-tho" (Complete transcription)
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Saskatchewan

Portraits

Cree Indians
Source:

Private

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1994-254 DAP
00001.24R
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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]
Physical access under supervision of art archivist

Box [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

BK-004 Item no. assigned by LAC 1.24R

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

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C-141398;

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C-145870--C-145872;

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.24R Acquired with the assistance of Hoechst and Celanese Canada and with a grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage under the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
Copyright: Expired

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