photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A40.32
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 40
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Man and Chief (Pi-ta-ne-sha-a-du), a Pawnee chief, sitting, wearing a fur hat with two shell ornaments and two eagle feathers, with his face painted(?), wearing ear ornaments, a bear claw and fur necklace, shell and beaded(?) necklaces, a warrior shirt with tassels, and he is holding a pipe on his lap; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print.
- Production date
- 1857-1858 (21 Dec 1857 - 7 Apr 1858)
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 36.60 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 16 centimetres (image)
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Width: 28 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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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: 1280-a. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Caddoan
TRIBE: Pawnee - Chaui or Grand Pawnee
SUBJECT: Peta-la-sha-ro = Man and Chief
The Younger (see 1279)
REMARKS: Born 1823 died 1874
BLACKMORE: A40-2026 (cropped) A37-1877
Jackson Cat: 538
? By Shindler, Washington 1869 (Shindler Cat: 64)".
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Published in: Fleming, Paula (2203) "Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: the Shindler catalogue", No.64, with the Amended Identification: “Taken between Decemeber 21, 1857-April 7, 1858. Contrary to a note in the Jackson Catalogue, the Pawnee did not sign a treaty during the delegation. The negative was made by the McClees Gallery: James E. McClees (owner/photographer), Julian Vannerson (agent and photographic artist), Samuel Cohner (operator). Shindler was not the photographer and only printed images for the exhibition. In the late 1860s, he was the proprietor of the Addis Studio, formerly the McClees gallery, and had access to the 1857-1858 negatives."
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Related image: Am,A30.23, Am,A37.2, Am,A37.11 and Am,A40.32
- 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,A40.32
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A40/2026 (Old BM Blackmore series number)