photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A5.27
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 5
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Black Horn (Hey-sa-pah), a Hunkpapa Sioux; his hair in braids and wrapped in cloth; he wears three eagle feathers in his hair, a printed scarf around his neck, a cloth shirt and vest, rings on his fingers and wool blanket around his waist; holding a sabre in one hand and a folding fan in the other; Washington, D.C, USA.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.70 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 9.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.30 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Associated information: the negative for this image is held by the Smithsonian Institution. A copy of the catalog card for this image can be found in the pic-doc for this image. The copy of that card indicates that the negative number for this image is 3185A, and the Jackson Catalogue number is 801.
Context: this image was taken by Gardner in Washington DC, when a delegation of Sioux traveled there to meet with the U.S. Government officials.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image fading, yellowing and spotted, mount with some surface dirt overall, particularly around edges.
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- The 'Disposal book of the Salisbury South Wilts and Blackmore Museum No. 1 1928-1952' reports the disposal of a: "Photographs of North American Indians and miscellanea" given to the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography of the British Museum. It is dated 24th February 1932.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,A5.27
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 75 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)