The Hunters - Ojibwa

Minneapolis, MN: Gravure Engraving Company. Photogravure [31.5 cm x 21 cm] / [12.5" x 8"] on cream colored stock [45.5 cm x 35.5 cm] / [18" x 14"] Nice condition. Image of two men in a canoe one is holding a bow and arrow. "After some persuasion and [numerous] gifts the interpreter with the two Indians met me on the bank of a good sized creek which emptied into Red Lake at the point I had selected for the picture. After coming to a satisfactory understanding the Indians went home and returned with their canoe and the bow and arrows you see in the picture." - Roland W. Reed

Roland W. Reed (1864-1934) was a photographer working in the American west, who was largely self-funded in his effort to document the vanishing indigenous peoples he encountered and sought out. Many of his images were staged to offer romanticized depictions of these people as he wanted to see them. Reed lived with and photographed the Ojibwe in Minnesota; the Blackfeet, Piegan, Flathead, Cheyenne, and Blood in northern Montana and southern Canada; and the Navajo and Hopi in Arizona. He had begun work on the publication of his collection with the title 'Reed's Photographic Art Studies of the North American Indian' at the time of his accidental death.