IDNO

P.8593.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Tents. Blackfoot. Montana.” [typed text]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.21048.TC1: “Blackfoot. CXIII.29. 166.Bl.29.
Blackfoot tipi, with sacred bundle at back."

A Blackfoot tipi (also known as tepee) erected at Little Badger Creek, near Browning, Montana, 1909. The tipi has three distinct colour bands, with the middle band decorated with figurative seated male? representations, and one male? figure standing and holding an eagle feather headdress? in his left hand and an unidentifiable stick-like object (pipe?, arrow? or spear?) in his right hand. A shoulder? bag with tassels is hung from a constructed wooden tripod in the foreground. A second teepee and canvas tents are in the background of the print, along with grazing horses. [JD 17/11/2006]

Place

N America; United States of America; Montana; Blackfoot Country; near Browning; Two Medicine River; Little Badger Creek

Cultural Affliation

Native American; Plains Indian; Algonquian; Niisitapi; ?Piikuni [historically Blackfoot; Piegan]

Named Person

Photographer

Horniman, John Eric; Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

August 1909

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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]

Related Image: Edward S. Curtis took a photograph titled 'Blackfoot Piegan child's lodge, 1910' of a child standing in front of the same tipi. [JD 11/21/2013The Photographer field has been amended accordingly. [JD 8/23/2013]

Bibliographical Reference: Alfred Haddon wrote a 32 page typescript memoir 'Among the Blackfeet Indians of Montana', which is in the Haddon Papers in the Manuscripts Room of the Cambridge University Library. It was published by Gidley, Mick (ed.) 1982. 'A. C. Haddon Joins Edward S. Curtis: An English Anthropologist among the Blackfeet, 1909', Montana, Vol. 32, autumn, pp. 20-33. [AH 1/24/2017]

Bibliographical Reference: Anita Herle describes Haddon's Blackfeet research and the 2014 visit to Browning, Montana to return copies of Haddon's photographs and related documents as part of a Leverhulme-funded Blackfoot Network in a joint article: Brown, Alison and Tony Crowford and Anita Herle. 2015. 'Storied Landscapes: Enlivening Blackfoot collections in UK Museums'. Journal of Museum Ethnography. [AH 1/24/2017]

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