photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A37.10
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 37
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Buffalo Bull (Ne-sha-ru-re-ra-hi-kuts) a Pawnee chief, seated wearing a bear claw neck ornament, a shell necklace, arm ornaments, a blanket around his waist, and a fur cap with a sheath and feathers attached; he is holding a wooden pole; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1857-1858
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.30 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 12.20 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.30 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Related information: This image was found with a typed and handwritten contents page numbered A37/1, thus album 37 begins with number 2. The page reads:
"PAWNEE.
Nebraska.
No.523 VILLAGE
No.524 A MUD LODGE.
Nos.525-527. GROUPS OF INDIAN CHILDREN attending the school
Nos.528, 529. GROUP OF CHIEFS.
Nos.530,532. PE-TA-LA-SHARU, Man and Chief, Principal Chief of the Pawnees
No.533. THE EAGLE CHIEF
No.534. SHA-KO-RA-TA-WAR-RUX, Sun Cheif.
No.535. TER-RER-EKUX.
No.536. GROUP OF SQUAWS.
Nos.537-539. THE SCHOOL-BUILDING.
No.540. NATIVE PAINTING ON ROBE.
Nos.541,542. THE AGENCY BUILDINGS.
Nos.543,544. KO-TOW-E-KAT-SU, Prairie Chicken.
Nos.545,546. SQUAW OF PRAIRIE CHICKEN.
No.547. KI-I-I-KUH, Buffalo Bull.
No.548. TI-RI-WAT'KA-DA-HUK, The Conqueror.
No.549. LA-HAK-TA-DU-HI-SHA-A-DUE, Medicine Pipe Chief.
Nos.550, 551. GROUPS OF CHIEFS.
Nos.552, 553. GROUPS OF CHIEFS, with interpreter.
Nos.554-557. BATISTE BAHAEL, interpreter.
Nos.558, 559. BLUE HORSE
No.560.
No.561-563.
Nos.564-566. GROUPS OF YOUNG BRAVES.
Nos.567-572. GROUPS IN THEIR VILLAGE
Nos.573,574. GROUPS OF CHIEFS IN THE VILLAGE.
No.575. KE-WUK-TE-WA-NA.
No.576. SA-KA-DE-TA.
Nos. 577-590. VARIOUS BRAVES AND CHIEFS without names.
Nos.291-595. GROUPS OF BRAVES AND CHIEFS.
No.596. TA-KA-DE-TER-ISK.
No.597. KE-WUK.
No.598. PRAIRIE CHICKEN.
Nos.599-610. VARIOUS BRAVES OF THE TRIBE.
No.611. SQUAW AND PAPOOSE.
No.612. A SQUAW.
nb. The two photos of Republican Pawnees 20 & 21 reproduced of WM not given"
It can be found in PicDoc 292.
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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 3924 and the following information:
Blackmore colln: 1876
Shindler cat no. 66
Jackson cat. 921
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Related information: The Shindler copy of this image is published in Fleming 2003. Native American Photography at the Smithsonian. p.92. The caption notes that this image was taken between 1857-58 at the McClees studio.
- 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,A37.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 21
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Miscellaneous number: A37/1876 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)