carte-de-visite (black and white)

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carte-de-visite(black and white)

Object Type
Museum number: Am,A9.203
Title: Object: William Blackmore Coll. Album 9
Description: Photograph, studio portrait of Curicata, an Uncompahgre Ute Chief; wearing a top hat, striped cloth shirt, decorated sash, striped blanket around his waist, leggings and moccasins; he is holding a rifle. Albumen print; Carte-de-visite
Producer name
Production date: 1877 (ca)
Production place: Photographed in: Colorado (state) (?)
Excavator/field collector
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 10.10 centimetres; Width: 6.20 centimetres
$Inscriptions
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: costume/clothing; headgear/hairstyle; arms/armour; personal-ornament
Associated names
Associated places: Associated with: Colorado (state) (?)
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,A9.203

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