Recherche dans la collection - Little Black Bear, Daughter of Cree Chief, Black Bear

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

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.

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.