A Chinook Lodge
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Datec. 1846-1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (13 x 18.4 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.41
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextThe Chinook people built permanent huts of split cedar boards. Kane wrote, “Round the interior are erected sleeping places, one above another, something like the berths in a vessel, but larger.” (While Kane made this drawing, the inscription at lower left is not in Kane’s hand. The inscription wrongly names the scene as a Blackfoot Lodge, when it is a Chinook Lodge.)
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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