Cherokee man, George Lowrey
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.44654
label: Local Note
content: Thought by USNM to be from painting by C.B. King. The owner of the original painting was unknown to the Museum in 1939.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird ?
label: Creator
content: Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872
label: Names
content: Dog
label: Names
content: Keeth-la
creator: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird ?
label: Creator
content: Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / King, Charles Bird ?
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: It seems likely that this is George Lowrey (a Cherokee, see Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30 and Mooney, 19th AR-BAE), but it was probably painted by J.M. Stanley, not Catlin. See Stanley, J.M., Portraits of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution (Pub. No. 53), Washington, December, 1852, page 15, where he lists "Keeth-la or Dog. (Painted 1844.) Commonly called Major George Lowrey...He is painted in the attitude of explaining the wampum..." On page 18, in describing his painting of the International Indian Council at Tahlequah, 1843, Stanley refers to Lowrey's explanation of the wampum at that council, and quotes his speech. --MCB, 8-57; called to my attention by W.C. Sturtevant.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published in Malone, Henry Thompson, Cherokees of the Old South; A People in Transition, University of Georgia Press, Athens, (copyright) 1956, opposite page 82. Caption: George Lowrey. Credit: From a Catlin portrait, courtesy of the Gilcrease institute, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
label: Bibliography
content: Similar portrait, laterally reversed, published in E.L. Fundaburk, Southeastern Indians, 1958, page 132, with caption: "George Lowrey. This oil painting of George Lowrey is 22 x 26 inches. It is owned by and pictured herein, Courtesy of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa." -- MCB 3-60.
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content: Photographs