Collection Highlights
Portrait of an Unidentified Woman
Date:
ca. 1700-1725
Object Number:
1952.80
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Powder Horn: Onondaga Indian, Prof. James Hall, Owner (I-11), with a Vignette Scene of Legendary Onondaga Chief Atotarho
Object Number:
1907.36.395
Date:
1889
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, gouache, and graphite, with selective glazing on beige paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 10 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. ( 27.3 x 35.9 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom right: Canajoharie Sept.1889 RA Grider
Inscriptions:
Inscribed and signed along lower edge in black ink: "In A.D. 1825 DAVID CUSICK a Tuscarora Indian wrote / an Account entitled 'SKETCHES of ANCIENT HISTORY...Canajoharie Sept 1889. RA Grider", with an extensive history taken from Cusick book; at upper left: "a POWDER HORN made & ornamented / by an American Indian..."; at lower center below vignette: "ATOTARHO the first of 13 Chiefs of that name..."
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
