IDNO

LS.21022.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Blackfoot, (Algonquian). CXIII.17. 166.Bl.1.
Blackfoot, family group."

On Leading Catalogue Card: "Algonquian Group.
see under Arapaho (Drawer 166).
Blackfoot (Drawer 166).
Cheyenne (Drawer 166).
Cree (Drawer 167).
Chippewa Ojibway (Drawer 167)."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.8609.ACH1: "Family. Blackfoot. Montana". [typed text]

A three-quarter length portrait of a Blackfoot family, consisting of an adult man and woman, two girls and an infant. The group stand facing the camera in front of a partially visible tipi on a grassy plain at Little Badger Creek, near Browning, Montana, 1909.
The man wears a partially visible feather headdress with ermine side drops; a buckskin shirt with two beadwork panels over the shoulders, ermine side drops hang from each shoulder; and his leggings have ermine drops at the sides. His breechclout is decorated with a panel of two alternating colours at the base.
The woman wears an elk-tooth dress with rows of teeth, stitchwork panels, and beaded tassels across the bodice, decorated beadwork belt, a long skirt with two bands of paler material at the base. She has her hair in braids and is adorned with bead neck and wrist ornaments. The older girl on the right also wears an elk-tooth dress, while the younger younger wears a plain dress with decorated belt and bands of colour at the base.
The infant stands in front of the woman and is blurred due to movement.
A collie dog is visible to the right of the tipi, and a shadow, possibly that of the photographer, is in the left foreground of the photograph. [from record P.8609.ACH1, JD 24/11/2011]

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

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort; Horniman, John Eric (Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, 1909)

Date

August 1909

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: In Gidley, Mick, 2003. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field (University of Nebraska Press), pp.71-72 is the following notation:
Haddon told newsmen in July 1909 that he was preparing to spend about two weeks with Dalby's 'Curtis' party on a research trip among Indians who had gathered for their annual summer fishing season at the mouth of the Fraser River in British Columbia. ... But his biggest adventures - as recorded in the following reminiscence - took place the following month among the Blackfeet in Montana, with Curtis himself present.
On p.74 is the following extract from Haddon's memoirs:
"About fourteen miles south of Browning we pitched our camp on a terrace of the valley of Two Medicine river, immediately above the spot where it is joined by Little Beaver creek."
On p.76 is the following extract from Haddon's memoirs:
"The district which we visited is occupied by the Piegan branch of the Blackfoot nation."
Extracts of the book are available on google preview, http://books.google.co.uk/. [JD 10/11/2013]