Amon Carter print details

Ansimaki Yellow Kidney, Blackfeet Reservation Lights Her Pipe

Helen M. Post (1907-1979)

Object Details

  • Date

    ca. 1941

  • Object Type

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Gelatin silver print

  • Dimensions

    Image: 9 9/16 x 7 7/8 in.
    Sheet: 9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Verso:

    u.l. in black pencil: Please return print

    u.l. [stamp]: FOR ONE REPRODUCTION ONLY \ BY Rockefeller Center [illeg.] \ Double charge for use without \ credit line. HELEN M. POST \ [crossed out] 142 LEXINGTON AVE. \ NEW YORK CITY

    u.r. in graphite: BLACKFEET

    u.r. in ink: 55 - 19785

    c. in graphite: Ansimake Yellow Kidney \ Blackfoot Reservation - lights \ her pipe \ Two Medicine Community

    l.l. [stamp]: Permission to reproduce only by \ arrangement with HELEN M. POST \ [croseed out] 142 LEXINGTON AVE \ NEW YORK CITY

    c. [label]: LOOK AT AMERICA - series. Page 235, "Look at American" single volume. \ A grandmother of the Blackfeet Indian tribe smokes a pipe outside her tepee on a \ reservation covering 2,343 square miles in northwestern Montana, The Blackfeet \ governeed by an elected council of 13 members, were among the first Indian to \ adopt a constitution for self-government. (55-19785)

    l.l. in black pencil: Kent, Conn.

    l.l. in ink: purchase \ 10 /19/ 55

    l.r. in black pencil: Please \ return \ H. Post Modley \ Kent, Ct.

  • Collection Name

    Helen M. Post Collection

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Peter Modley

  • Accession Number

    P1985.50.699

  • Copyright

    © Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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