Query: *
Frederick Johnson photograph collection
Creators:
Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Dates:
1924-1931
Size:
1.5 Linear feet
450 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)
450 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.038
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
The Frederick Johnson collection consists of original negatives made from 1924 to 1931 by Johnson primary among the Mi'kmaq, Innu, Algonquin, Potawatomi, Montagnais, Abenaki, Anishinaabe, and Mistassini Cree peoples of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec, Canada. Frederick Johnson began his anthropological studies as a teenager, accompanying anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1951) on trips to Native communities in Eastern Canada. Between 1923 and 1929, Johnson studied at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted several research trips in Canada, some of which were sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.
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