photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A40.8
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 40
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Blackfoot (Kam-ne-but-se), a Crow chief, sitting on a chair on the right, wearing a necklace, a piece of cloth tied around his neck, an embroidered warrior shirt with tassels, embroidered leggings and moccasins, a blanket over his legs, and holding a feather fan; Blackfoot's wife standing on the left, with a blanket wrapped around herself; Washington DC, United States of America.
Albumen print.
- Production date
- 1873 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 24.90 centimetres (image)
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Height: 35.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 19.60 centimetres (image)
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Width: 27.60 centimetres (mount)
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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: 3382. The following further information is on the catalogue card:
"STOCK: Siouan
TRIBE: Crow
SUBJECT: Kam-ne-but-se or Blackfoot, principal chief, Mountain Crows, and wife (squaw)
BLACKMORE: A40-2002
Jackson Cat 940
Neg. Wash. Dc 1873
Orig. print in Hrdlicka files (#4877) o n CM Bell mount. Blackmore print on Jackson mount".
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Related image: this image can also be seen in Am,B29.19
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image badly fading with spotting (spotting from bronze powder on 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,A40.8
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A40/2002 (Old BM Blackmore series number)