In-ne-o-cose, Mix-ke-mote-skin-na, Ah-kay-ee-pex-en
Artist
George Catlin
(American, 1796 - 1872)
Date1852
Mediumpencil and watercolor on cardboard
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/8 × 22 3/4 inches (44.1 × 57.8 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 inches (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 inches (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number11.77.2.H
ClassificationsPaper
DescriptionPages are now separate. Original worn buckrum binding, black leather corners and spine, gold lines. Encased in a red portfolio. Image depicts three Blackfoot figures in detailed traditional clothing.Label TextIn the 1830s Catlin traveled to the West to record and document Indian peoples and their customs. He painted nearly 500 portraits and scenes of life. He used those to make other later versions such as this watercolor of three Blackfoot Indians. On the left is Ah-kay-ee-pex-en (the woman who strikes many). Catlin wrote, “This young woman was celebrated for riding astride her horse in the chase with the hunters & bringing down her Buffalos with her Bow & arrows.” The central figure is In-ne-o-cose (the Buffalo’s child), a warrior, shown holding his medicine bag. On the right is Mix-ke-mote-skin-na (the Iron horn), another distinguished warrior.
ProvenancePurchased June 11, 1956 through (Charles Eberstadt, 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
On View
On view
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
