IDNO

P.8642.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “House. Pawnee.” [typed text]

Place

N America; United States of America; ?North central Oklahoma; Missouri; St. Louis; Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Cultural Affliation

Native American; Pawnee

Named Person

Photographer

Carpenter, Charles Henry

Collector / Expedition

Date

1904

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “N America; United States of America; ?North central Oklahoma”, but the photograph has now been identified as the Pawnee encampment at the St Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. See P.8642.ACH1 for a second view of the Pawnee village, and P.8864.ACH1 for a clearer view of the Exposition building. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 8/10/2013]

Photographer: Charles H. Carpenter, The Field Museum's first and chief photographer from 1899 to 1947, produced more than 3,000 negatives of the Philippine and Native Americans living on the Anthropology Reservation of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The Anthropology Reservation served as a living exhibit of native peoples from around the world. Carpenter photographed the Native Americans on the fairgrounds as the tourists would have seen them, and as portraits against simple studio backdrops. (The backdrop mainly appears to be a painted scene of vines climbing up two columns. For close-up head and shoulder portraits, the backdrop appears mainly plain, but with some draping or folds in backdrop. JD 12/4/2007). [Source: The Field Museum, www.fieldmuseum.org, JD 8/10/2013]

Date: Alfred Cort Haddon had joined George A. Dorsey of the Field Museum of Chicago in conduction fieldwork among the Pawness in 1901. See Gidley, Mick, 2003. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field. p.70. This date has been provisionally added to the record. Extracts of the book are available on google preview, http://books.google.co.uk/. [JD 10/7/2013]