Francis Harper photographs from an expedition to Great Slave Lake
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 4606
name: label: Photographer
content: Harper, Francis, 1886-1972
label: Names
content: Geological Survey of Canada
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Chippewa

Salteaux
place: label: Place
content: Great Slave Lake (N.W.T.)
label: Place
content: Saskatchewan
label: Place
content: Alberta
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Boats and boating
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Camps
creator: label: Photographer
content: Harper, Francis, 1886-1972
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Deh Gah Got'ine (Slavey)
label: Culture
content: Tli Cho (Dogrib/Thlingchadinne)
label: Culture
content: Denésoliné (Chipewyan)
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Francis Harper (1886-1972) was born in Southbridge, MA to a Canadian father and German mother.  He attended Cornell University, receiving a BA in 1914 and a PhD in 1925.  Harper made his first trip to northern Canada in 1914,  as a zoologist for the Geological Survey of Canada. During World War I, he was stationed with the US Army 79th division in France, and then in New York and Maryland.  He returned to Canada in 1920, but continued to travel throughout his life.  Harper also worked to trace the travels of John and William Bertram through the American South and made numerous trips to study the people and environment of the Okefinokee Swamp.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1914
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased from Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, in June 1961, with the assistance and approval of the Dr. Francis Harper. Correspondence with Dr. Harper and with Dr. J. M. Harrison, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, in Bureau of American Ethnology files.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.4606
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Native Americans/First Nations peoples (chiefly Cree and Chipewyan) in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Mackenzie, Canada, taken by Francis Harper on an expedition of the Geological Survey of Canada to Great Slave Lake in May-September 1914. Includes images of Cree, Ojibwa, Chipewyan, Salteaux, and Slavey people, as well as images of boats, encampments, and tea dances. Each of the photographs has an associated caption, given by either Harper or the Geological Survey of Canada.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Francis Harper held in the National Anthropological Archives BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds some of Harper's fieldbooks (SIA RU007434, SIA Acc. 12-443, SIA Acc. 12-581, and SIA Acc. 12-443).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library holds the Francis Harper papers.