Metis Encampment
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1846
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 5/16 x 9 inches (13.5 x 22.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.117
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"I was received by the band with the greatest cordiality. They numbered about two hundred hunters, besides women and children. They live, during these hunting excursions, in lodges formed of dresses buffalo skins." Kane, Wandering, Chapter VI
ProvenanceArtist; by descent to his grandson, Paul Kane III [1889-1958], Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; purchased September 17, 1957 through (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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