Oil painting of man wearing breechcloth, deer's hair roach, silver headband, medal and body paint; standing, holding a feathered lance
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.10072700

OPPS NEG.4695
label: Local Note
content: W. C. Sturtevant's notes on paintings seen at Redwood Library, 8/66 indicate this original is identified on each as Keokuk. -To be followed up in 1970 - see W. C. Sturtevant.
label: Local Note
content: Painting seen by MCB at University [of Pa.] Museum exhibition, "The Noble Savage," 1958, under title, "Indian Chief in Dress [of] Ceremony," credited to Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island. However, this painting is not listed in the "Catalogue of Pictures, Statuary & C., belonging to Redwood Library, September 1, 1885." The latter Catalogue lists this title for Number 20, a different picture (BAE Negative 4696). No painting of this title is listed in the Checklist J. C. Ewers, "Charles Bird King, Painter of Indian Visitors to the Nation's Capital," U. S. Nat. Museum Annual Report for 1953, Washington, 1954, pages 463-473.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird
label: Names
content: Keokuk
creator: label: Creator
content: King, Charles Bird
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Plains
setName: label: See more items in
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bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Date of painting not recorded; ca. 1820's.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1820's
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The original painting was in the Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island, until May 1970, when it was sold at auction by that library at the Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York City. The identity of the current owner is not known.