IDNO

P.8492.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Mask. Side view.”

A First Nations man wearing a Nuu-chah-nulth mask and head-piece, consisting of a carved and pasinted wooden mask with fur? eyebrows, and a vegetation wig. The masked person is sitting side on to the camera in front of a studio backdrop painted with a column. [JD 20/09/2022]

Place

N America; Canada; United States of America; Northwest Coast; Missouri; St. Louis; Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Cultural Affliation

Northwest Coast Indian; Nuu-chah-nulth [historically Nootka]

Named Person

Photographer

Carpenter, Charles Henry

Collector / Expedition

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904

Date

1904

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image in the collections of Smithsonian Institution, reference OPPS NEG.T13571, and captioned: "Indian wearing Nootka mask and head piece 1904. Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Nootka Indians. Creator Charles H. Carpenter. Collector Willis G. Tilton. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution." [Source: https://sova.si.edu/details/NAA.PhotoLot.89-8?s=0&n=12&t=D&q=Wichita&i=8#ref934, JD 20/09/2022]

Photographer: Charles H. Carpenter, The Field Museum's first and chief photographer from 1899 to 1947, produced more than 3,000 negatives of the Philippine and Native Americans living on the Anthropology Reservation of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The Anthropology Reservation served as a living exhibit of native peoples from around the world. Carpenter photographed the Native Americans on the fairgrounds as the tourists would have seen them, and as portraits against simple studio backdrops. (The backdrop mainly appears to be a painted scene of vines climbing up two columns. For close-up head and shoulder portraits, the backdrop appears mainly plain, but with some draping or folds in backdrop. JD 12/4/2007). [Source: The Field Museum, www.fieldmuseum.org, JD 8/10/2013]