IDNO

P.8594.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Tent. Blackfoot. Montana.”

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.21046.TC1: “Blackfoot. CXIII.25 - 28. 166.Bl.25 - 28.
Blackfoot tipi.
(4 slides)."

A Blackfoot tipi (also spelt as tepee or teepee) erected at Little Badger Creek, near Browning, Montana, 1909, in an encampment with accompanying miscellaneous equipment. The tipi has a dark base band, which is normally associated with the Earth is decorated with white circles (possibly representing the puff ball (Lycoperdaceae Calvatia gigantea)). The main area of the tipi, which is normally associated with the depiction of exploits (or sometimes dreams, visions), is decorated with three? scenes of possibly a large meeting. The figures shown include separate groups of men? on horseback facing groups of people standing. [JD 17/11/2006]

Puff ball design at the bottom of the tipi
[confirmed by Blackfeet elders, Blackfeet photo workshop, Browning Montana, 22 July 2014. A Herle 20/01/2017]

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]

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]