Calotype photograph, using positive paper silver, salt paper.

The calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841, using paper coated with silver iodide.

This is a portrait of Kahkewaquonaby, the Reverend Peter Jones, carrying a pipe tomahawk and wearing a ceinture fléchée.

Kahkewaquonaby, ("sacred feathers" in Ojibwa) was born on 1 January 1802 at Burlington Heights, Hamilton (Upper Canada). He was the son of Augustus Jones, a retired surveyor and his Christian name was Peter Jones.

He was a Mississauga Ojibwa chief, member of the eagle totem, farmer, Methodist minister, author and translator.

Kahkewaquonaby became a convert of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1823 and married Elizabeth Field in New York City on 8 September 1833. On 6 October 1833, he became a fully ordained Methodist minister. As a chief of his community, the Mississaugas of the Credit River, he fought for over a quarter of a century for Mississauga land rights and for those of other Ojibwa communities throughout southern Ontario. He died on 29 June 1856 near Brantford, Upper Canada.

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