- Museum number
- Am,A15.10
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 15
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Reverend Samuel Dutton Hinman, Charles Picotte, White Swan (Ma-Ga-Shan), Alexander Gayou, Struck By The Ree, Black Eagle (Wan-Mdi-Sa-Pa), Little Bird, Long Foot (Si-ha-han-ska), Bear That Turns Around (Ma-To'-Wa-Yu-Mni); Rev Hinman and Charles Picotte each wear a suit and tie and are sitting in the back row, side by side; on their left is White Swan who has his hair in two plaits and wears a cloth tunic; beside him is Alexander Gayou, who wears a suit jacket, a shirt and neck tie; Black Eagle sits in the front row on the left, and wears an eagle feather in his hair, earrings, a choker with patterns, a cloth shirt, hide(?) leggings with bead pattern work, moccasins, and holding a tomahawk; Long Foot and Little Bird sit in the centre on the front row, they are similar dressed with fur(?) headbands and eagle feathers, cloth shirts, leggings and moccasins, except for that the man on the right holds a tomahawk; Struck By The Ree, sits second from the right, in the front row, and wears a fur hat with an eagle feather, a cloth shirt, a pair of hide(?) leggings with bead pattern work, a pair of moccasins, and holds a tomahawk; on the far right, it is believed to be the Bear That Turns Around(?), who wears a suit jacket, a shirt, a tie, a pair of trousers and shoes; District of Columbia, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1867
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 27.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 18.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 35.30 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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Smithsonian Archives Catalogue Card: A copy of the catalogue card for this image can be found in the PicDoc for this image. The catalogue card indicates that the Smithsonian Institution owns a negative of this image, number: 3636. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Siouan (Yankton group)
TRIBE: Yankton
SUBJECT: A Group of Yankton chiefs.
BLACKMORE COLLN: A15-1444
JACKSON CAT: probably #245 in Cat #5 Only
Shindler Washington, D.C. 1867"
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The names of the individuals in this image, have been identified by the Smithsonian Institute.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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,A15.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 271 (Series number)
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Miscellaneous number: A15/1444 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)