IDNO

P.8590.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Precipice over which bison are driven. Blackfoot. Montana.” [typed text]; “Note: picture is of MAN outside hut or building not precipice or bison?” [manuscript in ink]

Full-length portrait of a man wearing a half-length Asian-style tunic with toggel-closures at the shoulder and plain black trousers, and holding a cigarette? in his hand. The man is leaning against the wall of a wooden building.

Place

N America; Canada; British Columbia; Fraser River

Cultural Affliation

Chinese

Named Person

Photographer

Horniman, John Eric; Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort; Horniman, John Eric (Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909)

Date

July 1909

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Group: While it is unclear, the man’s appearance suggests he may be of Chinese origin. The negative record suggests the man’s group might be ?North West rather than Blackfoot. [Jocelyne Dudding 15/1/2007]

Photographer: This negative was previously attributed to 'John Emslie Horniman' (b. 1863 - 1932), but based on the biographies and life dates, it is more likely that the photographer was John Eric Horniman (b. 1889 - 1951), Emslie's son. This has been confirmed by the Passenger lists of the 5th June 1909 from England to Montreal, where the following passengers:
"Dr. A.C. Haddon, 55 years old, Surgeon.
Fanny, wife
Ethel, 25 yrs. old, daughter
Kathleen, 21 yrs. old, daughter.
John E. Horniman, 20 years old, student, single."
See also the self-portrait, N.14632. The Photographer field has been amended accordingly. [JD 8/23/2013]

Publication: In Gidley, Mick, 2003. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field (University of Nebraska Press), p.71 is the following notation:
Haddon told newsmen in July 1909 that he was preparing to spend about two weeks with Dalby's 'Curtis' party on a research trip among Indians who had gathered for their annual summer fishing season at the mouth of the Fraser River in British Columbia. While there Haddon apparently became involved in a a police raid on the Chinese barracks at one of the Canadian canning companies."
Extracts of the book are available on google preview, http://books.google.co.uk/. [JD 10/11/2013]

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “N America; United States of America; Seattle; ?Montana”, but based on the above publication notation, it is likely that the photograph was taken in British Colombia. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 10/11/2013]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 18/9/2008]