MS 7616 Roland N. Whitehorse drawings
name: label: Creator
content: Whitehorse, Roland Noah, 1920-1998
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Whitehorse, Roland Noah, 1920-1998
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Roland Noah Whitehorse (1920-1988) was a Kiowa artist, historian, and storyteller.  He was born in Carnegie, Oklahoma and attended St. Patrick's Catholic Missions School, Riverside Indian School, Bacone College, and the Dallas Art Institute.  He served with the 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, and worked at Ft. Sill as an exhibit specialist with the Ft. Sill Museum and graphics illustrator for the Department of the Army. He was a direct descendant of To-hau-son, the last principal Chief of the Kiowas, and designed the official logo for the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor, ink, and pencil)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974
container: label: Container
content: Box 7616
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The collecation was sent to Candace Green by Roland Whitehorse in November 1994 and transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by Green.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7616
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Watercolors
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Watercolors
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of eleven (11) watercolor, ink and pencil drawings by Roland N. Whitehorse.  The drawings depict grotesquely comical men. One drawing folds at the edges so that it stands. It is a bust of a cadaverous man, with eagle feathers, discolored eye, diaper pen on a braid, tattoos, and other objects. There is another copy of this drawing and two preliminary drawings in the collection. Three drawings are a set depicting three views of a pot-bellied, garishly painted man. The remaining drawings are pencil sketches of similar figures in various poses.

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