An Unexpected Find: Self-Representation in Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photographs of Canadian Lenape

Seven photographs discovered in the Moravian Archives show inhabitants of Moraviantown, Ontario, six Lenape and one European. The photographs were taken in the second half of the nineteenth century, at an early stage of the development of photography. The research about the sitters in the photograph...

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Main Author: Holtz, Menja 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn State Univ. Press [2018]
In: Journal of Moravian history
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 2, Pages: 187-220
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBQ North America
KDD Protestant Church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Portrait photography
B Ethnographic photography
B Colonialism
B Indigenous Peoples
B Sons
B Tribal nations
B Native culture
B Photographs
B Christianity
B White people
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