Photograph of Nowadluk/Nowadlook (Nora) Ootenna wearing a coat with a fur collar. Ootenna was an Inupiat woman who was a popular subject for Alaskan photographers around the time - [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. She was has been mentioned as the daughter of James Keok[8] (.doc) (though their recorded birth dates makes this unlikely [9]) and she was married to George Ootenna[10] who were natives of Cape Prince of Wales[11] and worked as reindeer herders[12] (a business in which Lomen Bros was the main investor in Alaska)[13]. The Glenbow archive places most of the photos of her there.[14] Nora was born in 1885 and as of the 1910 Census she lived in Port Clarence (essentially Cape Prince of Wales).[15]
Date
According to the LOC: "c1907, printed 1916(?)." But according to the Glenbow Museum, the brothers didn't invest in the studio until 1908, so a studio shot from 1907 is unlikely.[16]
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cropped and cleaned up. The original can be viewed here: Inuit Woman 1907.tif: . Modifications made by Crisco 1492.
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2012-02-29T07:15:08Z Crisco 1492 4244x5120 (21732308 Bytes) {{Information |Description=Photograph of an Alaska Native woman wearing a coat with a fur collar. Original title was "Eskimo woman"--likely Inuit/Inupiat based on location of photographer (Nome), but also might be Yup'ik. |S
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