Indian with Headdress of Beads on a Race Course Near Fort Vancouver
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions4 15/16 x 7 1/8 inches (12.5 x 18.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.35
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"....arrived safely at Fort Vancouver on the 20th of June....I took a sketch of a Chinook boy with a singular headdress of beads, the design seemed to be entirely original with him, as I had never before met with any resembling it." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XVI
Although Kane identified the figure as a boy, it is more likely a girl.
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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