photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A23.4
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 23
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of The Foremost Sitter (Naw-gaw-nab), a Chippewa chief, standing wearing a suit, shirt, neck tie; he is holding an object in his right hand; St Paul, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 19thC(mid)
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 34.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.10 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.20 centimetres (mount)
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- 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 431 and the following information:
Blackmore colln no.1639
Jackson cat no.85
Subject: Naw-gaw-nab = The Foremost Sitter
Photographer: Joel E Whitney, St Paul, Minn.
- 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,A23.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 380
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Miscellaneous number: 85 (Jackson catalogue number)
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Miscellaneous number: A23/1639 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)