Interior of a Clallam Lodge, Vancouver Island
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1847
Mediumwatercolor and pencil on paper
Dimensions5 3/8 x 8 15/16 inches (13.7 x 22.7 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.80
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextKane was greatly interested in the Clallam lodges. He wrote that their lodges were cedar and were sixty or seventy feet long. "Their lodges are the largest buildings of any description that I have met with amongst Indians. They are divided in the interior into compartments.” He said a lodge housed eight to ten families.
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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