Ogemawwah Chack or "The Spirit Chief"
Artist
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Date1848
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensions10 1/4 x 9 5/16 inches (26 x 23.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.78.199
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextPaul Kane sketched this Inuit man when he "...arrived at Norway House, where the brigade left me.... I was detained here for more than a month.... I amused myself in fishing and shooting.... I was often accompanied in the canoe by Ogemawwah Chack, 'The Spirit Chief,' an Esquimaux from the Hudson's Bay who had attained to an extreme old age. According to received opinion, he was 110 year old and the events which he related as having witnessed seemed to warrant the belief."
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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