Indian Childern, Undated

Title taken from recto of card.

Photographer: Underwood & Underwood, London.

Printed on recto, top center: "62."

Printed on recto, left: "European Publishers Underwood & Underwood (London) Ltd."

Printed on recto, right: "Underwood & Underwood. New York & Ottawa, Kas. Works, Arlington, N.J."

Printed on recto, bottom right: "Indian Childern, Port Coldwell, Ontario, Canada. Copyright Underwood Underwood."

Printed on verso: "You are near a station on the northern shore of Lake Superior, about 180 miles east of Fort William. It is a region which for centuries belonged to the forefathers of these Ojibway or Chippewa little folks. When the first white explorers (Jesuit missionaries) came out here in 1665, they found all the country about Lake Superior controlled by a fine, sturdy race with a well-developed, expressive language of their own., and ingenious system of picture-writting and a traditional belief in a Great Spirit overruling human affairs. The old Ojibways lived in wigwams, made canoes of birch-bark and lived by fishing and hunting; their favorite amusement during the long winter evenings was the telling of stories about the sun, the moon and the wind, the beasts of the forest and the creatures of the lake waters. Their wars with other tribes, especially the Sioux, were almost continuous and full of details of hideous to a white man's mind, for, along with their naturally poetic temperment, they had a genuine savage relish for physical horrors. For half a century now the descendants of teh old warriors have been a steady-going, common-place part (about 11,000) of the population of teh Dominion. You can see that time has wrough unpicturesque changes in their costume. These boy and girls have schools provided for them, and show good capacity for education of the same kind that is given to white children. Many of the old Ojibway customs and legends were incorporated by Longfellow in his famous Story of Hiawatha. From Notes of Travels, No. 5, copyrighted, by Underwood & Underwood."

Printed on verso, bottom: "Indian Childern at Port Coldwell, Ontario, Canada." Repeated in French and four other languages.