Cees-nee-uh Artist's Label: "Chees-nee-uh, Chief of Sitka (Alaska) Tribe, very dignified, quiet and kingly, and a great wood carver.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Maker or artist:
Joseph Henry Sharp
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Oil paintings (visual works)
Accession date:
January 2, 1902
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
height 34.925 centimeters and width 24.13 centimeters
Title:
Chees-nee-uh (Title Subject)
Comment:
Good condition. Artist's price $250.00. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.
Loans:
S1969-1970 #86: University of California Library (February 16, 1970–March 17, 1970) and S1989-1990 #12: Cowboy Hall of Fame (January 8, 1990–July 17, 1991)