photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A19.7
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 19
- Description
-
Photograph (black and white) from an album; a studio portrait of Red Owl (Hin-kan-du-ta), a Dakota Chief, standing wearing a jacket, shirt and bow tie, three eagle feathers in his hair, and a blanket wrapped around his waist, his hair is in two plaits, and he has a tomahawk with fur on the handle placed in the fold of his blanket; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1858
- Dimensions
-
Height: 18.40 centimetres (image)
-
Height: 34.20 centimetres (mount)
-
Width: 13.70 centimetres (image)
-
Width: 25.20 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
-
-
- Curator's comments
-
Related information: the negative for this image is held by the Smithsonian Institution. A copy of the catalogue card for this image can be found in the picdoc for this image. The card indicates that the Smithsonian negative number is 3660 and the following information:
Blackmore colln: 1563
Shindler Cat no. 51
Jackson Cat no. 923
-
Related information: This image is printed in Fleming 2003. Native American Photography at the Smithsonian, p.78. The caption notes that it was taken in 1858 by the McClees studio.
-
Related information: this image was taken in Washington DC, when a delegation of Native North Americans traveled there to meet with United States Government officials
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image faded. Foxing on the 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,A19.7
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: 51 (Shindler Catalogue number)
-
Miscellaneous number: A19/1564 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)