IDNO

P.8761.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Child, Navaho, good.” [typed text]

Half-length portrait of a Navajo girl wearing a silver squash-blossom neck ornament, turquoise bead neck ornaments, and an uniform of a checked cotton blouse or dress - possibly the student uniform of the “US Indian School (Special)”. She looks directly at the camera while posing in front of a painted backdrop with the columns just distinguishable on the right.

Place

N America; United States of America; ?Missouri; ?St Louis; ?Anthropology Reservation of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Cultural Affliation

Native North American; Athapaskan; Navajo [historically Navaho]

Named Person

Photographer

?Carpenter, Charles Henry

Collector / Expedition

1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis

Date

?1904

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Field Columbian Museum, Chicago

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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 7/4/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 13/4/2007]