photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A21.14
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 21
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Charles Keokuk (aged 14) sitting on a chair with fringing, wearing a a jacket, a shirt, a tie, a waistcoat, a pair of trousers, and pair of shoes; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1869 (Shindler copyright)
- Dimensions
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Height: 17.60 centimetres (image)
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Height: 35.30 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 27.50 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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In front of Am-A21, a content page was found assigned the BM number: Am,A21.1 with a list of Jackson Catalogue numbers associated with the photographic portraits located in Am-A21
The page reads:
"SAC AND FOX
Kansas
No. 667 KEO-KUK, Watchful Fox, sr
Nos. 678-682 KEO-KUK, jr
Nos. 683, 684 CHARLEY KEO-KUK
Nos. 685, 685 MOLESS
Nos. 687, 688 SAC-A-PEE
No.691 KNA-SA-WA-KNUT, Geo. Gomez
No. 692 DEAD INDIAN
No. 693 THE SEA
No. 694 BIG BEAR
Nos. 695-699 MA-KO-HO-KO
No. 700 MA-NO-TO-WAH
Nos. 701, 702 GRO. GOMEZ
No. 703 KEO-KUK, st.
Nos. 706, 707 KEO-KUK, SON, AND THREE BRAVES.
No. 708 SAC CHIEF
No. 709 GROUP OF SAC AND FOX CHIEFS
No. 710 COMMISSIONER BOGY AND GROUP OF CHIEFS
No. 805 GROUP OF FOX CHIEFS
No. 806 COMMISSIONER BOGY READING TREATY"
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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: 623 a. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Algonquian
TRIBE: Sauk and Fox
SUBJECT: Charles Keokuk (Grandson of former chief)
DATE: 1868
PHOTOGRAPHER: A Zeno Shindler, Wash., DC
BLACKMORE: A21-1610
Shindler Cat 160
JACKSON CAT.: 684"
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Published in: Fleming, Paula (2003) “Native American photography at the Smithsonian : the Shindler catalogue” , no.160; with the Amended Identification: " Charles Keokuk, son of Moses Keokuk and grandson of Keokuk. The first Sauk and Fox delegation of 1868 were in Washington DC from March 1 through August 14th. They return to Washington sometime after October 16th and are in the capital at least in December when both Moses and Charles are ill. Copyright by Shindler in 1869".
- 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,A21.14
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 160 (Shindler series number)
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Miscellaneous number: 183 (Series number)
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Miscellaneous number: A21/1610 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)