photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A30.42
- Title
- Object: William Blackmore Coll. Album 30
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of a group of seven men; from left tor gith standing in the back row is Keechie Tud, Awarhe, Black Beaver, Kne-wa-ka-sets; from left to right in the front row, sitting, is Long Horn, Assadawa, and Possum; Keechie Tud is wearing a shirt, and a blanket wrapped around himself and holding a bow; Awarhe is wearing a shirt with a blanket wrapped around himself; Black Beaver is wearing a neck tie, a shirt, and a jacket; Kne-wa-ka-sets is wearing a fur heair ornament, ear ornaments, a peace medal(?), a long sleeved top, and a blanket wrapped around his waist; Long Horn is wearing a shirt, a neck tie, a blanket wrapped around his waist and holds a bow; Assadawa is wearing a two piece suit and a pair of moccasins; Possum is wearing a long sleeved top with a blanket wrapped around himself and holds a bow and arrows; United States of America.
Albumen print.
- Production date
- 1869
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 35.10 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 12.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 27.50 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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Related image: This portrait is enlarged section of a group portrait Am,A30.41.
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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: 811-d. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Algonguian, Caddoan
SUBJECT: Assadawa
REMARKS: From Major Henry Shanklin (or Franklin)
BLACKMORE: A30-1755
Copy by Shindler, Washington DC 1869 (Shindler Cat 170)."
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Published in: Fleming, Paula (2203) "Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: the Shindler catalogue", No.170, with the Amended Identification: "Unidentified photographer. Copyrighted 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,A30.42
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 130 (series number)
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Miscellaneous number: 170 (Shindler series number)
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Miscellaneous number: A30/1755 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)