photographic print(black and white);
glass negative
- Museum number
- Am,G.N.2336
- Description
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Glass negative (black and white); photograph of a cutting from a newspaper or magazine of a portrait of two Sioux Chiefs, Look Twice and Long Dog, posing outdoors; they both wear their hair in braids and feather headdress; Look Twice wears fringed hide shirt and leggings with moccasins and holds a pouch; Long Dog wears cloth shirt and leggings with moccasins, and holds a staff with eagle feathers on it; they both stand on a woven blanket; North Dakota, United States of America.
Photographic process
- Production date
- 20thC(early) (original photograph)
- Dimensions
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Height: 10.70 centimetres
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Width: 8.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Context: this image is B10/7 as described in the list in PicDoc 312, which states "Sioux magnates - Chief Looks Twice (at right). wearing a $100 buckskin shirt, and Chief Long Dog. Stilwell. Same as B3/6. Same people in B5/5.”
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Related image: this image can also be found in Am-G.N.2254
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Digital copy: saturation and levels adjusted.
- Acquisition date
- 1982 (March)
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased lot 93 from Phillips Auction house at their photographic auction on Wednesday March 17th 1982 at 12 noon. The auction catalogue entry for lot 93 reads:
"93 North American Indians, one hundred and sixty-eight glass negatives, showing tribes and their environment, many taken from books and newspapers, but some original, fifty-five family plates including London street scenes, early 1900's good condition (£30-50)."
These glass negative came with a list with the title "Glass negatives purchased at Phillips 1982".
The plates of London street scenes were transferred to the Museum of London in September 1982.
For the documentation related to the sale see PicDoc312.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,G.N.2336