Inscribed in ink on lower right: Nellie Ghost Face | 17 years old | 3 rd year Grade | 5 years in School | Two Kettle Sioux Indian
Workbook Page, ca. 1893
- Sioux, Native American
Gouache and watercolor on paper
- Framed: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 inches (27 × 20.3 cm)
Founders Society Purchase
81.757.3
Department
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
- Children's art
- Sioux
- Paper (fiber product)
- Gouache
- Watercolor
- Flowers (plants)
- Student drawings
- Workbook
- Watercolor
- Gouache
- Page
- Rosebud indian reservation
- Birds
Details
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Provenance
I. George Wright, U.S. Indian Agent (Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, USA); his daughter; obtained by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] in Chicago; purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA); 1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Rights Status
Sioux, Native American, Workbook Page, ca. 1893, gouache and watercolor on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.757.3.
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