IDNO

P.8612.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “2 women. Blackfoot. Montana”. [typed text]

A portrait of two Blackfoot women seated side by side on a grassy hilled plain. The woman sitting to the left ?appears to be young in age, while the woman to the right ?appears slightly older. Four other figures are visible although not in focus in the background, standing on a small hill. The woman sitting to the left is wearing a long dress with elaborate beadwork patterning on the upper half. She is wearing two beaded necklaces that hang down her front, and her hair is braided. The woman sitting to the right is wearing a cloth dress with striped patterning on the upper half and a fringe at the bottom. The lower half of the dress is patterned with white blocks. Her hair is braided.

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]