- Museum number
- Am,A21.17
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 21
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of I Hold You a Prisoner (Wienatia), a Sauk and Fox man, standing on the left, wearing a cloth headdress with a feather, ear ornament, a shell necklace, a patterned shirt, a blanket wrapped around himself, and a pair of moccasins; Fast Walker (Wast-eh- com-ma-ni) a Ponca Chief, sitting on a chair, in the centre, wearing ear ornaments, a beaded and shell necklace, a shirt, a blanket over his legs, a pair of leggings, and a pair of moccasins; Bone Crasher (Wahashua) standing on the left, wearing ear ornaments, a shell and bead necklace, a shirt, a blanket wrapped around his waist, a pair of leggings and a pair of moccasins; St Louis, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1843-1853
- Dimensions
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Height: 31 centimetres (image)
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Height: 35.10 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 24.50 centimetres (image)
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Width: 27.50 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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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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It is believed that Fitzgibbon was the original photographer of this portrait, and that the original would have been a daguerreotype.
- 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,A21.17
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A21/1613 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)