Portrait of Theodora Octavia Dennis Cook

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See more items in: Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection; Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection / Series 9: Virginia and Maryland: Rappahannock, Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Nansemond, Potomac, Accomac, Powhatan / 9.2: Pamunkey

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Scope and Contents: Outdoor seated portrait of Pamunkey woman Theodora Octavia Dennis Cook, wife of Chief George Major Cook, wearing a woven feather neck ornament of wild turkey feathers, wild goose, and shelldrake or shellduck, made by Margaret Adams (who may be pictured in N12588), NMAI catalog number 105721.000. She wears a long dark dress, white blouse, and beaded headband on the Pamunkey Reservation, Virginia.

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Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection

Creator

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

Summary

The Frank Gouldsmith Speck photograph collection includes portraits of individuals and families, as well as scenic shots and landscape views made between 1909 and 1937. Speck was an anthropologist and ethnographer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation collecting ethnographic materials across the Eastern United Sta...