photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A38.68
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 38
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of a Sioux woman, seated, wearing a checked shirt, a cloth skirt, a patterned shawl, and shell ear ornaments; Fort Randall, United States of America
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.70 centimetres (image)
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Height: 26.60 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 5 centimetres (image)
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Width: 21.40 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related information: This image was found with a handwritten title page numbered A38/1 and several newspaper articles and book pages numbered A38/2-15, thus album 38 begins with number 16. The title page reads:
"Ouray. Head Chief of The Utes."
It can be found in PicDoc 292.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 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,A38.68
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 85
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Miscellaneous number: A38/1948 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)