Getty Museum

[Rev Peter Jones]

Date

August 4, 1845

Medium

Salted paper print from a paper negative

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

> Peter Jones (1802-56), born near Lake Ontario in Canada, had a father of Welsh descent and a mother who was an Ojibway Indian. Growing up within the tribe, he was given the name Kahkewaquonaby, meaning "Sacred Waving Eagle's Plume." Baptized in the Wesleyan Methodist Church as a teenager, Jones later became a missionary to the First Nations People. > > In July 1845 Jones preached in Edinburgh. Hill and Adamson (David Octavius Hill [1802-70] and Robert Adamson [1821-48]) made several calotypes of him on August 4. In some of the pictures he wears First Nations garments (as seen here); in others he is dressed in Western clothes. These images are among the oldest surviving photographs of a First Nations individual. > > Adapted from Anne M. Lyden. *Hill and Adamson*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999), 60. ©1999, J. Paul Getty Museum.

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