photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A24.3
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 24
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of a Jicarilla Apache woman, seated wearing a cloth dress, a shell choker, a bracelet, and a blanket around her shoulders; her hair is in two braids; she is holding a baby wrapped in a cloth; Taos, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 30 September 1871
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 34.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.50 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.20 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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Related information: Colin Taylor notes in his paper, 'William Blackmore: A 19th Century Englishman's Contribution to American Ethnology' that Orloff Westman photographed Native North Americans at Taos, Mexico in September 1971, during the Annual San Geromino Fiesta, at the request of William Blackmore. The paper is published in Feest. 1989. Indians and Europe. Forum 11, pp.321-334.
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Related image: the full image from which this enlarged section has been taken can be seen in Am,A24.2
- 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,A24.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 3
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Miscellaneous number: A24/1645 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)
