Hamilton & Kodylek
19th century (late)
Studio portrait of a Winnebago woman sitting on a chair, holding a baby in a wooden baby-carrier wrapped in cloth and with charm ornaments on the baby-carrier around its neck

Stereoview, half
British Museum
Museum number: Am,B37.14
 
Photograph (black and white), half of a mounted stereoscope photograph; studio portrait of a Winnebago woman sitting on a chair, holding a baby in a wooden baby-carrier wrapped in cloth and with charm ornaments on the baby-carrier around its neck; the woman wears shell ear ornaments, a shell necklace, a patterned shirt, and a skirt; Iowa, United States of America.
 
Curator's comments (Accessed: 5 June 2020)
Acquisition/Associated name: This image is stored in a box labelled as "William Blackmore". There is no associated documentation to determine that the collection was acquired from the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury in 1932, at the same time as Blackmore albums within the BM Pictorial Collection.
Related image: Am,B37.13, Am,B37.14, Am,B37.15 are all photographed in the same studio (note: woven mat on floor & wall skirting). Same baby in same baby-carrier in Am,B37.15.
The Smithsonian Institute owns an exact stereoscope of this image: NAA INV 09826100, with the identified creator as Hamilton and Kodylek, Sioux City, Iowa.
 
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