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Wootonekanuske – Historic Reproduction

Wootonekanuske, c1924 Dec. 29. — historic photograph
Wootonekanuske, c1924 Dec. 29.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Titled *Wootonekanuske*, this portrait is linked in its record to Philip, the Wampanoag sachem also known as Metacom, who died in 1676 at the close of King Philip's War. The catalog also lists the subject as family portrayals and describes the dress as Rhode Island clothing from 1660 to 1680, which suggests a deliberate re-creation of seventeenth-century Native attire rather than a record of everyday life. Fred W. Glasier, a photographer in Brockton, Massachusetts, made and copyrighted the image around 1924, a time when New England pageants and historical performances often drew on the region's colonial past. Such pictures reveal as much about how 1920s audiences imagined that history as about the period itself.

Created / publishedc1924 Dec. 29.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Gelatin silver prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ274090 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Copyright by Fred W. Glasier, Brockton, Mass.
SubjectsPhilip,--Sachem of the Wampanoags,--d. 1676--Family--Portrayals. Indians of North America--Performances & portrayals--1920-1930. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--Rhode Island--1660-1680.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,170 × 5,114 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-209166

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