Medicine Man with Mask

Artist Paul Kane (Canadian, 1810 - 1871)

Date1847

Mediumoil on paper

Dimensions12 1/2 x 9 7/8 inches (31.8 x 25.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.78.202

ClassificationsPaintings

Label Text"Six or eight of the principal men of the tribe, generally medicine-men, adorn themselves with masks cut out of some soft light wood with feathers, highly painted and ornamented, with the eyes and mouth ingeniously made to open and shut." Kane, Wanderings, Chapter XIV

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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