Portrait of Mali A'n Sylliboy and Mary Josephine Morris
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
- Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
- Culture
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
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- Frederick Johnson photograph collection
- Frederick Johnson photograph collection / Series 3: Canada: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Mi'kmaq (Micmac) / 3.4: Eskasoni Reserve, Nova Scotia
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic)
- Date
- 1930
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.001.038, Item N19899
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frederick Johnson photograph collection, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited users to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not changed, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity
- Scope and Contents
- Outdoor portrait of Mi'kmaq (Micmac) women Mali A'n (Morris) Sylliboy, left, and Mary Josephine (MacCleod) Morris, right. They are posed in front of a birchbark wi'kuom (wigwam), constructed by Mrs. Morris and her husband Chris Morris during Johnson's visit on the Eskasoni Reserve, Nova Scotia. The wi'kuom (wigwam) may be NMAI object 17/6513. They both wear jackets, shawls, and beaded peaked caps. Mali A'n is in NMAI object 17/6428, Mary Josephine is in 17/6426 (cap) and 17/6427 (regalia). The same cap as Mary Josephine can be seen on Harriet (Joe) Denny in N19900, N19901 and N19903.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
- Record ID
- ebl-1518645605302-1518645605453-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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