photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A8.16
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 8
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Kwa-ko-nut and Mose, both Ute chiefs, seated, both are wearing leggings, moccasins, dentalium breast ornaments, and blankets on their laps; Kwa-ko-nut is also wearing a warrior shirt with quillwork on the sleeves; Mose is also wearing a tunic with quillwork on the sleeves and the chest, he is holding a gun in his lap, and is wearing his hair is two bunches wrapped in fur; Washington D.C, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 1873
- Dimensions
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Height: 20.40 centimetres (image)
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Height: 25.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.70 centimetres (image)
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Width: 20.20 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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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 1582 and the following information:
DATE: 1873
Blackmore colln. No. 1096
Jackson Cat. No. 770
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Related information: this image was taken in Washington DC, when a delegation of Native North Americans traveled there to meet with United States Government officials in 1873.
- 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,A8.16
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A7/1096 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)