Elsie Nelson

Elsie Nelson

Rappahannock girl
Virginia Indians, Rappahannock

Rappahannock tribal member Elsie Nelson poses for the photographer Frank G. Speck in Indian Neck sometime between 1914 and 1925. Speck (1881–1950) was a native of New York and a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he specialized in Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes in the eastern United States and Canada.

Frank G. Speck

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

ca. 1914–1925

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central Virginia

twentieth century

Photograph

3.5" x 4.5"