 Courtesy of the
Pitt Rivers Museum,
Oxford University,
England
B.66A.12
Sir Francis Knowles began working on contract for the Anthropological Division of the Geological Survey of Canada in 1912 as a physical anthropologist.
Knowles's photographs of the Iroquois are an unexpected and compassionate portrait of a people, transcending the scientific basis with which he began.
|
|
Fieldwork Portrait of Chief John Gibson (Onondaga) and Family
1912 Six Nations Reserve, Ontario
Fieldwork Portrait of Charlie Sundown's Daughters (Seneca)
1915 Tonawanda Reserve, New York
|
