Mrs. Theodora Dennis Cook

Mrs. Theodora Dennis Cook

Virginia Indians, Pamunkey, early twentieth century

Pamunkey tribal member Theodora Dennis Cook poses for the photographer Frank G. Speck sometime around 1900 in King William County. Cook wears a cape made of wild turkey and duck feathers. Speck (1881–1950) was a native of New York and a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he specializied in Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes in the eastern United States and Canada.

Frank G. Speck

National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

ca. 1900

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central Virginia

twentieth century

Acetate negative

5" x 7"