Portrait Of Kills Instead Woman, by Winold Reiss
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1968
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mr. W. T. Reiss
notes: label: Notes
content: Artist: Winold Reiss. From card: "Painted ca. 1940. Kills Instead Woman (Cecile Black Boy), Piegan, was born October 19, 1895, the daughter of Short Robe and Going After Water, and was listed as Cecile Short Robe, aged 5, in the Blackfeet Reservation Census of 1901. She was educated at the Willow Creek and Cut bank schools on the Reservation. She was married first to Boy, later to Reuben Black Boy, and still later (1952) to Theodore Last Star. She died Feb. 19, 1966 and was buried in the Willow Creek cemetery on the reservation. She was a skilled craftworker, and an active participant in traditional Blackfoot ceremonies. During the early '40's (as Cecile Black Boy) she was employed on the Montana Writers Project of WPA collecting Blackfoot myths and information about Blackfoot painted lodges directly from older Indians and tranlating them into English. Her manuscripts are preserved in the Museum of Plains Indian, Browning Montana, which supervised the project. She and her husband, Rueben, served as interpreters for the Smithsonian Ethnologist, John C. Ewers, during his field work on the Blackfoot Reservation in the 1940's. See The Horse in Blackfoot Culture, p. XIII."
label: Notes
content: Reiss archive identifies as 30"x22", pastel on Whatman board, date 1934.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Jun 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi), Piegan (Piikani)
label: Culture
content: American
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 279925
label: USNM Number
content: E409950-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting