Group of Indians and white men in interior of Fort Pitt, Canada
- Local Numbers
- OPPS NEG.55862
- Local Note
- Black and white copy negative
- Creator
- Cote, J. O. ?
- Names
- Big Bear (Winnebago)
- Dufrain
- Dufrain, Henry
- Edmund
- Fire Sky Thunder
- L'Goulet
- Matoose
- McDonald, Alex
- McKay, Angus
- Napasis
- Rowley
- Simpson, Stanley
- Sky Bird
- Sleigh, Corp
- Place
- Alberta -- Fort Pitt
- Creator
- Cote, J. O. ?
- Culture
- Cree
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- Indians of North America -- Subarctic
- See more items in
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Cote, J. O. ?
- Extent
- 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
- Date
- 1884
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Bibliography
- Left half of photograph, showing Big Bear and four others reproduced in William B. Fraser, "Big Bear, Indian Patriot," Historical Society of Alberta, Calgary, 1966 (15 pages), page 8. Copy in Smithsonian Office of Anthropology-Archives files.)
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- Left to right: (1) Fire Sky Thunder, (2) Sky Bird (Big Bear's Son), (3) Matoose, (4) Napasis, (5) Big Bear, (6) Angus McKay (Hudson's Bay Co.), (7) Dufrain (Hudson's Bay Co. Cook), (8) L'Goulet, (9) Stanley Simpson (Hudson's Bay Co.), (10) Alex McDonald, (11) Rowley, (12) Corp. Sleigh (killed at Cut Knife), (13) Edmund, (14) Henry Dufrain. "Interior of Fort Pitt. This photograph was taken in 1884 probably by J. O. Cote. It shows five members of Big Bear's band as well as a number of traders and one member of the Northwest Mounted Police. Fort Pitt was located on the North Saskatchewan River just east of the present Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary and was destroyed by Indians in 1885 after it had been abandoned by its inhabitants." -- Information received from Hugh A. Dempsey, Archivist, Glenbow Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada letter of July 12, 1966.
