Blackfoot family and their tipi
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.55973
label: Local Note
content: Man (Onesta ?) appears to be holding the sacred Bear Spear. Cf. photo of similar spear in Walter McClintock, The Old North Trail, London, 1910, page 353. Spear shaft covered with bear skin to which is attached eagle feathers, and nose, teeth, and claws of a grizzly bear. Spear never allowed to touch ground; hung from tripod during the day, and from lodge pole inside tipi at night. See McClintock, 1910, pages 352-358.
label: Local Note
content: Comment by J.C. Ewers: Appears to have been taken at Glacier National Park with St Mary's Lake in the background; may have been taken there just for the purpose of having a good background.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Magee, Thomas B. ?
label: Names
content: Onesta ?
topic: label: Topic
content: Blackfeet
creator: label: Creator
content: Magee, Thomas B. ?
culture: label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Magee, Thomas B. ?
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1900
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs