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The Nisenan Photographs of Alexander W. Chase (2016) (15 pages)
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318 Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology . Vol. 36, No. 2 (2016)
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Figure 5. “Maidu Headmen with Treaty Commissioners.” The maker is listed as being unknown,
but the image was almost certainly created by Robert H. Vance at Bidwell’s Ranch in August, 1851.
Half plate daguerreotype, courtesy of the George Eastman House. GEH 1969:0205:0037.
from relatively formal to highly informal, depict both
individuals and groups in a variety of social contexts,
although a majority tend to focus on what the artist
considered “leading men” (Blackburn 2006:8). In
addition, a number of the portraits specifically mention
the subject’s social role; few other images from the period
are so identified. Figure 6 is particularly interesting in this
regard, in that it depicts a man specifically identified as
a chief. The drawing has a certain air of formality about
it, as if the subject were posing for an ‘official’ portrait;
he is shown wearing a woven hairnet held in place by a
bipointed hairpin, ear rods, and an elaborately beaded
multistrand necklace with abalone bangles (or possibly
a second, separate necklace consisting of bangles alone).
Similar wealth or status items are visible in other
Brown drawings as well, though I have not reproduced
them here. The relaxed, informal portrait of Nisenan
chief Wehmer and his son (Blackburn 2006:Fig. 9) shows
the son wearing two necklaces, one of abalone bangles
and the other consisting of multiple strands of beads.
Nisenan chief Tacolah (2006:Fig. 10) is also depicted
wearing a beaded necklace with multiple strands. Three
other drawing are also of interest in this context. In one,
an unidentified man (2006:Fig. 22) is shown wearing
a hairnet and hairpin, while in another (2006: Fig. 24)
the subject is wearing an abalone bangle necklace; on
the basis of Brown’s descriptions of his work, I would
argue that both men were probably chiefs. The third