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GAD Reference number: IT 120;
Indian Affairs' consecutive no.: 45
Aboriginal people(s): Ottawas and Chippewas;
Aboriginal individual(s): J.B. Assekinack and others;
Other party(ies): The King
Type of Document: Provisional agreement to surrender - Docket title: "The Chippewa, Ottawa and Suaking Indians Provisional Agreement for the Surrender of the Manitoulin Islands and the Islands on the North shore of Lake Huron and also of the Sauking Territory"
Specific purpose(s): To obtain an agreement to relinguish their respective claims to certain islands in order that the King could provide them to eligible Indians for their residence
Land involved: Manitoulin Islands, all Islands on the north shore of Lake Huron "claimed by the English, the Ottawas and the Chippewas"
Form: Manuscript original

The document has 14 doodem (clan, also known by the anglicized term totem) signatures and a single large red wax seal. Blue ribbons are attached to document at the top left corner.

The document is laminated with tissue. Sheet one's centre fold has tears in it. Sheet two is missing pieces, its edges are worn and torn. A piece was replaced by conservation.

Indian Treaties and Surrenders (Coles' 1971 Reprint): Vol. I, pages 112-113.

This document is also available on microfilm reel T-9938.

Exhibition title: Marks of Chief Tainship. Curators: Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, M'Chigeeng, Ontario; 2011.08.02 - 2012.10.02.