COLLECTION
Molly Spotted Elk Collection
Identifier
MF 079 (local)
Summary
Molly Spotted Elk (b. 1903) was the stage name of a Penobscot Indian woman from Maine who entered the world of vaudeville and entertainment at a young age. In the late 1920s she starred in a motion picture, “The Silent Enemy” filmed in northern Canada. She became a dancer on the Paris stage and married a French journalist, but was forced to flee the country during the German occupation in World War II. The collection was donated in 1979 and 1999 by Jean Moore. The materials are currently housed in seven archival document cases occupying roughly 3 linear feet. A preliminary inventory folder listing is available, but the collection is otherwise unprocessed. This collection consists of two accessions.
Language
Dialects)
Other Subject Headings
Molly Spotted Elk works (Local)
