IDNO

P.8605.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Men (?) Blackfoot. Montana.” [typed text]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate image LS.21032.TC1: “Blackfoot. CXIII.8 - 15 (15 broken). 166.Bl.8 - 15.
Blackfoot men.
(8 slides)."

Full-length portrait of two Blackfoot men standing facing the camera on a grassy plain at Little Badger Creek, near Browning, Montana, 1909. The man standing on the left wears a buckskin shirt with patterning on the front and a short fringe at the bottom. A line of ?ermine side drops are attached to the top of both sleeves, and three sets of two ermine drops also hang from a beaded panel along shirt neckline. The shirt is adorned with two diamond pattern beadwork panels stitched onto the front, with a panel attached laterally from shoulder to cuff of each sleeve. Beadwork panels of similar diamond design are attached to the outer edge of the man’s leggings, and he wears undecorated moccasins.
The man on the right appears younger, and wears his hair short in a ?European style. He is wearing a buckskin shirt with patterning on the front and tassels at the neck and the sleeves. The shirt is decorated with beadwork? panels down from the shoulders of a block pattern of two alternating colours. He wears a blanket (probably coloured red) with a decorative porcupine-quill? stitchwork and ribbon panel, as a kilt. (Same blanket as in P.8608.ACH1) He wears strands of ?strings of bone discs a neck ornement.
[JD 8/1/2007]

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]