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Maticwaub or "The Bow"
Maticwaub or "The Bow"
Maticwaub or "The Bow"

Maticwaub or "The Bow"

Artist (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1845
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensions9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (24.8 x 15.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.177
ClassificationsPaintings
Label Text"The Indian village of Saugeen, meaning 'the Mouth of a Rover,' contains about 200 inhabitants (Ojibbeways)....I sketched the principal chief, named Maticwaub, or 'the Bow.' The band of which he is the head chief forms a part of the great nation of the Ojibbeways, which still inhabits the shores of the Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter I
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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