photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A35.7
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 35
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Black Lightening (Wa-kan-hdi-sa-pa), a Santee Dakota man, sitting on a chair with fringing, wearing a bow tie, a shirt, a waistcoat, a jacket, a pair of trousers, and holding a hat; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1857 (17 Feb - 8 Apr 1867)
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.70 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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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: 3480. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Siouan
TRIBE: Santee
SUBJECT: Wa-kan-hdi-sa-pa = Black lightning Wa-kan-hdi-sha-pa
REMARKS: Home: Devils Lake Res, N.P. 14 yrs old
By Shindler, Washington, DC 1869 (Shindler Cat 39)
BLACKMORE: A35-1825
JACKSON CAT: 204"
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Published in: Fleming, Paula (2003) “Native American photography at the Smithsonian : the Shindler catalogue” , no.39; with the Amended Identification: " Taken between February 17 and April 8, 1867, in Washington, D.C., probably before April 1 when the U.S. government ordered portraits of this delegation from Shindler."
- 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,A35.7
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 39 (Shindler series number)
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Miscellaneous number: A35/1825 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)