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Hill & Adamson
Rev. Peter Jones
1843-1847
Salted paper print, from paper negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937, Accession Number: 37.98.1.84
LL/69465
John Jones and Peter Jones were the children of Deputy Surveyor General Augustus Jones and Tuhbenahneequay who was the daughter of Wahbanosay, a Mississaugas chief of the Eagle doodem, in the Burlington, Ontario area of what is now Canada. The Mississaugas are closely related to the Ojibwa.
Wikipedia: Wahbanosay.
This photograph was likely taken around 4 August 1845 when the Rev. Jones preached in Edinburgh. (Pers. comm., Anne Lyden, 14 October 2016)
Comments by Wes Cowan (14 October 2016):
Peter Jones was a well-known Mississauga Ojibwa. He's wearing mainly traditional clothing for many Great Lakes and NE groups, but his shirt looks to be European. At least some of the material was probably made in the late 18th century if not earlier. By the time this image was taken, much of this traditional clothing had fallen out of favor and had been nearly replaced by European goods. The stuff he's wearing probably were heirlooms that Hill and Adamson asked him to put on to "look" like an Indian. In today's art market, I'd guess he's wearing and holding almost a million dollars worth of stuff!
Additional sources:
Donald B. Smith, 2013, Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition, (University of Toronto Press). See: Chapter 12, From Edinburgh to Echo Villa.
JONES, PETER (known in Ojibwa as Kahkewaquonaby, meaning “sacred feathers” or “sacred waving feathers”; also known as Desagondensta, in Mohawk, signifying “he stands people on their feet”), Mississauga Ojibwa chief, member of the eagle totem, farmer, Methodist minister, author, and translator; b. 1 Jan. 1802 at Burlington Heights (Hamilton), Upper Canada; m. 8 Sept. 1833 Elizabeth Field* in New York City, and they had five sons, four of whom survived infancy; d. 29 June 1856 near Brantford, Upper Canada.Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Accessed: 14 October 2016)
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