IDNO

P.8722.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Andreas Ortis.” [typed text]

Half-length seated frontal portrait of an Acoma man, Andreas Ortis, wearing a head bandanna, neckerchief, tunic with decorative stitchwork at the shoulder seam, a fur sash across the body, and a concha belt. He is posed in front of a painted studio backdrop.

Place

N America; United States of America; New Mexico

Cultural Affliation

Acoma

Named Person

Andreas Ortis

Photographer

Hillers, John K.

Collector / Expedition

Date

1882

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Bureau of American Ethnology

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image held at the National Anthropological Archive with the following information:
Creator: Hillers, John K.
Title: Portrait (Front) of Andreas Ortis in Native Dress with Concha Belt 1882
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 007 in x 008 in photograph Black and white Glass negative
Cite as:  BAE GN 02092A 06351500
Culture: Acoma
Local Number:  NAA INV 06351500; OPPS NEG 02092 A
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu , JD 11/4/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/4/2007]