IDNO

P.8770.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Man, Jicarilla Apache. Amer. B. of E.” [typed text]

Full-length frontal portrait of a young Jicarilla Apache chief, Guerito (Man with Yellow Hair), wearing a feather? head ornament, hoop ear ornaments, bead neck ornament, dentalium? shell and bead chest ornament, buckskin shirt with porcupine? quill embroidery and fringing, and a blanket with porcupine? quill embroidery as a blanket. The studio is decorated with a curtain to the right.

Place

N America; United States of America; District of Columbia; Washington D.C.; (New Mexico; Jicarilla Reservation)

Cultural Affliation

Native American; Southwest Indian; Apache; Jicarilla

Named Person

Guerito (Man with Yellow Hair)

Photographer

Ulke Brothers

Collector / Expedition

Date

1873

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Bureau Of American Ethnology

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: The same image is held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, with the following information:
Creator: Ulke Brothers
Title: Portrait of Apache man, Guerito or Man with Yellow Hair 1873
Contained in: Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s
Phy. Description: 1 8x10 in photograph Black and white glass negative
Bio / His Notes: A young chief. Home: Jicarilla Reservation, New Mexico. For short sketch, see Jackson Cat. 753. Blackmore Colln. #: A15/1466.
Place of creation: District of Columbia Washington
Cite as: Negative 2566, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives
Culture: Apache Jicarilla
Local Number: NAA INV 9947900; OPPS NEG 2566
Co-Creator: Ulke, Henry
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 13/4/2007]

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