Drying Salmon

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper

Dimensions5 1/2 × 9 5/16 inches (14 × 23.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.50

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionThe head chief's and the second chief's lodges are depicted. (p.293 Harper)

Label TextIn this sketch of lodges of the Indian near Kettle Falls, small pencil numbers above the lodges identify individual ownership. In the Landscape Log Kane wrote that number 1 belonged to the head chief, number 2 to the second chief and number 3 to the salmon chief.

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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