The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Plate 616: A Chipewyan Tipi Among the Aspens
1926
(American, 1868–1952)
Overall: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Gift of Dr. Terence and Joyce Isakov 2022.295
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The Chipewyans are an Indigenous Canadian people inhabiting the Northwest Territories including northern parts of Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.Description
Edward S. Curtis wrote that “much of this area is barren, but the streams that feed and drain the innumerable lakes are bordered by thick groves of the slender, white boles of aspens, whose pleasant glades are favored by camps of fishermen and berrypickers. The Chipewyan dwelling, formerly made of the skins of caribou, on which animal these people principally depended for food, clothing, and shelter, was one of the few points in which their culture resembled that of the plains Indians.”- ?-2022Dr. Terence D. Isakov and Joyce Isakov, Moreland Hills, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHDecember 5, 2022-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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