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odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV 09126400

USNM Accession Number 133605

USNM Catalog Number 362155
name: label: Artist
content: Hurd, Jack
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Arizona
creator: label: Artist
content: Hurd, Jack
culture: label: Culture
content: Washoe (Washo)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (oil on canvas, franmed, 14.25 x 7.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: before 1900
container: label: Container
content: Item 362155
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The painting was donated to the United States National Museum as part of the bequest of Victor Justice Evans in 1931 (accession 113605). It was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1971.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS362155
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Paintings
label: Type
content: Works of art
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A framed oil painting on canvas depicting a woman, child, and small dog in front of a thatched structure.

A note accompanying the painting states:

"Jack Hurd, a Washoe Indian aged 16 years, a student at Phoenix Indian School, painted this picture of the Arizona home.

This boy shows special talent in drawing, having made a number of fine maps of the world, and one of the United States that attracted much attention and newspaper comment at the Department of Indian Education at Charleston, S.C.  He is a full blood Indian boy and has been in school about six years.  He is a fine penman and excells [sic] in fancy lettering.  

Presented to Mrs. J S. Hill by Miss Reel Supt. of Indian Schools July 1900."

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.