carte-de-visite (black and white)

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carte-de-visite(black and white)

Object Type
Museum number: Am,A9.122
Title: Object: William Blackmore Coll. Album 9
Description: Photograph, studio portrait of Fox on the War Path also known as Ke-wuk-o-car-war-ry, alias Fat George, a Pawnee man. He is wearing ear-rings, necklaces and a blanket; holding a tomahawk pipe. Albumen print; Carte-de-visite
Producer name
Production date: 1868
Production place: Photographed in: Americas
Excavator/field collector
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 10 centimetres; Width: 6.20 centimetres
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Curator's comments: Ethnology Photographic Catalog no. 1308-f Remarks: Fox on the War Path or Ke-wuk-o-car-war-ry Alias Fat george. Photographed by Jackson. Jackson Catalogue no. 599. See also Blackmore Collection A37/1888.
Bibliographic references: Camarda 2001 / The Blackmore collection : issues of authenticity in the construction of a fictionalised imagery of the "Wild West" through Native American Indian photographs; Fleming & Luskey 1991 / The North Americans Indians in early photographs
Location: Not on display
Condition: good
Subjects: arms/armour; smoking; personal-ornament
Associated places: Associated with: North America
Associated ethnic name
Acquisition name
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,A9.122

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