Oil painting

Museum number:
17-49
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.37 and Acc.50
Description:
Chief Flat-Iron.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Place depicted:
Sioux, North Dakota
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
January 2, 1902 and November 12, 1902
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 45.72 centimeters and width 30.48 centimeters
Title:
untitled (Title Subject)
Comment:
Sioux (Teton Dakota). Label "Raised with and a great friend of Sitting Bull." One of the emissaries chosen in 1890 by the Dakota leaders to visit Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet in Nevada. He was a medicine man and a close friend of Sitting Bull. After the termination of the hostilities between the Dakota and the U.S. Army, he made three world tours with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Frame stamped with seal of Peleger patent Feb. 2nd, 1886. Canvas loose, needs keys. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.
Loans:
S1976-1977 #54: Charles M. Russell Museum (March 30, 1977–June 16, 1977) and S1989-1990 #12: Cowboy Hall of Fame (January 8, 1990–July 17, 1991)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-49, described as Chief Flat-Iron.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-49, described as Chief Flat-Iron.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-49, described as Chief Flat-Iron.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Oil painting, accession number 17-49, described as Chief Flat-Iron.

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