Saskatchewan Archives (S-B11843)
This photograph of a dog team was taken by photographer T.H.J. Charmbury in the Prince Albert area, between 1900 and 1918. Dog teams were an important method of transportation during the winter, and these dogs would have been treated as working animals. In this image you can clearly see the decorative “standing irons” attached to each of the dogs’ collars. Standing irons were purely decorative pieces, which were typically made of ribbons, pompoms and feathers.
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