Stabs By Mistake Photograph from the Magee Collection

Father: Sitting With Back Sticking Out
Mother: Dives to the Shore
Wife: Steal In The Day Time
Father: Mountain Chief (Big Brave)
Mother: Bird Sailing This Way
Children: Peter Stabs by Mistake, Thomas Stabs by Mistake.

Stabs by mistake was a Beaver Man. He was one of the last Aamskaapiipikuni to take part in the Dove Society. The was a member of the Black Tail Deer Society. He took a Crow Water bundle around the same time that he had joined the Black Tail Deer Society. Stabs by Mistake was buried with a War Pipe that was given to him by Mountain Chief. He was a drummer for many Medicine Pipe openings because he knew the songs however; he never had one transferred to him. Stabs by Mistake was transferred the Top Knot and a necklace from one of the Medicine Pipe holders. Stabs my Mistake drowned in the Four Horns Lake.

Card information: 1. A headshot of a Blackfeet man wearing a pinstripe jacket, a scarf around his neck and earrings, with his hair in braids. Henry L. Magee, 1896-1966 MGNGEN0001

This photograph is part of the Magee Family Collection. The collection was donated to the Blackfoot Digital Library by Don Magee the son of Thomas Magee. The originals are now in the University of Alberta's archives. Research on the photographs has been done by Adrienne Heavy Head using various published resources about the Blackfoot people and interviews.