English: Laplander woman. Said to be "Sami woman from Finland" in Peter Mesenhöller Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920 (c. 1905) p.43.
Later identified as Kirsten Nilsen Bals from Kautokeino in Norway by the radio journalist Ragna Nordenborg.
Williams, William, 1862-1947 (collector). Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis), 1865-1925 (photographer)
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