photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A6.27
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 6
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Big Mouth (Bi-nan-set), an Arapaho chief, in profile; his hair in braids, which are wrapped in fur; he wears a brimmed hat, a cloth shirt and vest and a blanket around his waist; holding a tomahawk in his arms; Washington, D.C, USA.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.70 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.50 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 9.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.30 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
- Album information: This album has related material (e.g. newspaper clippings, lists and handwritten notes) that each have album numbers assigned, which is why this album begins with image number 25; see Picdoc.
Associated 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 Pic-doc for this image. The copy of that card indicates that the negative number for this image is 70-A, and the Jackson Catalogue number is 35.
Context: this image was taken by Gardner in Washington DC, when a delegation travelled there to meet with the U.S. Government officials.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image fading, yellowing and spotted, mount with some surface dirt and yellowing.
- 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,A6.27
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 99B (Old BM Blackmore collection number)