photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A13.46
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 13
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Che-Ko-Skuk, a Sauk and Fox Chief; he wears a decorated fur headdress with an eagle feather, a bear claw necklace, a cloth shirt, a wool blanket around his shoulder and waist, wool leggings with beadwork decoration, beaded leg bands and moccasins; holding a tomahawk and beaded pouch; Washington, D.C, USA.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.30 centimetres (image)
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Height: 35.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 27.60 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related information: This image was found with a title page numbered A13/1, with an adhered printed list and handwritten notes, this document can be found in PicDoc 280. The printed part reads: "OTOES
Nebraska.
No. 480. WOA-INGA, Pipe-Stem.
No 481. TRUE EAGLE.
NoS. 482 - 485 DA-NU-WA-INGA, Little Pipe.
No. 486. MON-TCHE-HON-TCHE, Big Bear.
No. 487 A-KI-KE-DA, The Herder
No. 488. PAR-HO-CHIN-NA, Little Iowa.
NoS. 489, 490. WOA-INGA , Pipe-Stem
No. 491. WOA-INGA and DA-NU-WA-INGA
NoS. 492 - 494. T SHO-KE-HO, Medicine Horse
No. 495. TSHE-OANG-EH-KI-HI, Buffalo Chief
No. 496. SHO-KE-HOE, TSHE-OANG-EH-KI-HI, and interpreter.
No. 497. SHO-KE-HOE, and interpreter.
No. 468. BLACK ELK,
No. 498.
Nos. 500, 501, GROUPS YOUNG BRAVES
Nos. 502, 503. Two CHIEFS."
The handwritten part states: "All apparently copied or taken by Shindler. Names of others are [?] 8/77"
Associated information: 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 Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives negative number for this image is 690-C.
Inscription: although the inscription on the front of the mount indicates the sitter is Otoe, He is actually Saux and Fox.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Dirt on mount.
- 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,A13.46
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A13/1425 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)