Mancemuckt, Chief of the Skeen
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
DateJuly 8, 1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 5/8 x 4 inches (14.3 x 10.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.109
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"The Indians who reside and congregate about the Chutes for the purpose of fishing, are called the Skeen tribe; they do not flatten their heads and appear to a hardy, brave people, at this time particularly friendly to the Hudson's Bay Company people and at peace with their Flathead neighbours....I give...the likeness to Mancemuckt, the chief; he wore a fox-skin cap and a leather deerskin shirt at the time." Kane, Wanderings, XVI
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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