Indian Child from Strait of Juan de Fuca
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 x 3 1/2 inches (12.7 x 8.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.14
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"I remained on Vancouver's Island until the 10th of June, and perhaps it would be as well, before my taking leave of it, to give a general summary of the information I acquired, from personal observation, and from the gentlemen of the Hudson's Bay Company, respecting the characteristics of the different tribes inhabiting these regions....Those at the mouth of the columbia, and for a hundred miles up it, as well as those at Puget's Sound, and the Straits of De Fuca, and at the southern part of Vancouver's Island, have their heads flattened down in their infancy as represented in the sketches of the Chinook tribe." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XV
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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