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Wa-Na-Ta, Grand Chief of the Sioux
Image Not Available for Wa-Na-Ta, Grand Chief of the Sioux

Wa-Na-Ta, Grand Chief of the Sioux

Artist (American, 1799 - 1858)
Artist (American, 1785 - 1862)
Author (American, 1785 - 1859)
Author (American, 1793 - 1865)
Publisher (American)
Date1838
Mediumlithograph on paper, hand-colored
Dimensions20 5/16 × 14 1/4 inches (51.6 × 36.2 cm)
Mat: 24 × 18 inches (61 × 45.7 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1994
Object number91.110.11
ClassificationsPrints
Label TextThis portrait resulted from a project to document Indian history. Thomas L. McKenney held important positions in Indian Affairs in the U.S. government. He started the Indian Gallery collection of portraits. He wanted to reproduce these images in a book. James Hall, a lawyer became his co-author. They produced three beautiful volumes. Biographies accompanied the portraits. Wanata, or the Charger, was a “chief of the Yanktonas, a tribe of the Sioux, or Dacota Indians.” They lived by the “waters of the River St. Peters, which empties into the Mississippi.” Wanata held “more influence than any other Indian chief on the continent.”
ProvenancePurchased December 26, 1973 through (The Old Print Shop, New York, New York) by Donald S. Graham, Denver, Colorado; purchased November 28, 1994 through (Anderson O'Brien Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Artf
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