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Portrait of Teznad Zelly at Isle-à-la-Crosse

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

March 1820.

Reference:

Box number: BK-004

Type of material:

Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

2963396

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George Back fonds

Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic Sketchbooks by George Back

George Back's sketchbook

Portrait of Teznad Zelly at Isle-à-la-Crosse
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

March 1820.

Place:

Île-à-la-Crosse, present-day Saskatchewan:

Place of creation:

Saskatchewan

Extent:

1 watercolour : watercolour on wove paper
Support x cm

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Watercolour of Teznad-Zelly, a young Denesuline man, at Île-à-la-Crosse. The picture represents him in profile with a knife at his waist.

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Artist: Back, George, Sir, 1796-1878

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Physical description note:

This item is one page (folio 56 verso) of a bound sketchbook, which can also be accessed in cover-to-cover form.

Availability of other formats note:

Colour transparency of the items before conservation is of the double page spread, folio 56 verso and 57 recto (C-141460 and C-141461). This page was also copied as C-145969 and C-145971.

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. Signed. Dated., Inscription: in black brush point, t.: "Teznad-Zelly - a Northern Indian Boy / Isle à la Crosse / 1820"; l.r.: "GBack"; (Complete transcription)
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Saskatchewan

Portraits

Cree Indians
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1994-254 DAP
00001.56V
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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 1.56V

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1994-254]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-141460;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-145969;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-145971;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1994-254-1.56V. 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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