Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America: From Canada to Vancouver’s Island and Oregon through the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territory and Back Again
Artist and Author
Paul Kane
(Canadian, 1810 - 1871)
Lithographer
Vincent Brooks
(1815 - 1885)
Publisher
Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
(founded 1724)
Date1859
Mediumchromolithographs on paper; woodcuts on paper; bound in red buckram, brown leather spine and corners
Dimensions8 1/2 × 5 1/4 inches (21.6 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number11.85.1
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Label TextKane published an account of his travels from Toronto to the Pacific coast and back. He described the people and places he encountered. Kane probably had a “ghost writer” who edited the text to make it more suitable for a Euro-Canadian audience. The frontispiece of Kane’s book presents a portrait of a beautiful young woman of mixed heritage. In the text, Kane gave her name, Cun-ne-wa-bum, or, One that Looks at the Stars. He danced with her at a Christmas party at one of the forts where he stayed. She agreed to sit for a portrait and did so “with great patience, holding her fan.”
ProvenanceArtist; by descent to his grandson, Paul Kane III, 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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Paul Kane
after 1848 [narrative covers October 7, 1846 – September 12, 1848]
Paul Kane
after 1848 [narrative covers May 9, 1846 – October 6, 1846]
Paul Kane
after 1848 [narrative covers June 17, 1845 -- July 3, 1846]
Paul Kane
after 1848 [content covers 1845 - 1848]
c. 1950
