photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A35.37
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 35
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of twelve Santee men, including Rev Samuel Dutton Hinman sitting third from the left in the front row; the men all wear three piece suits, and some are holding hats; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1867
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.10 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: 27.60 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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In front of Am,A35, a handwritten page was found assigned the BM number: Am,A35.1 (now in the PicDoc) with a list of Native North American names and Ethnic Groups associated with the photographic portraits located in Am,A35.
The page reads:
"Dakota or Sioux confederacy
The Tetons & sub-band as
arranged by Barton(?)
1. H(?0-pa-pa or )?_papa
(They who camp by B(?))
2. Sisia(?) papa - a Blackfeet
3. hunni kanya-wuzhihi - miniruenyoi(?)
5. Ogallalla
6. Brules a (?) Thighs
7. Two kettle - two trilogy or bohenorpa(?)
Dakota units(?)
(?)
(?)"
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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: 3484-a-b. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Siouan
TRIBE: Santee
SUBJECT: Group of Santee head men with Rev Hinman
REMARKS: By Shindler Washington DC 1867
BLACKMORE: A35/1855 -1840 - 1841
JACKSON CAT: 382-3-4"
- 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,A35.37
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A35/1855 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)
