Payta Kootha, a Shawnee Warrior
1836
Artist, American, 1809 - 1864
Printer, American, active 1834-1837
Publisher, American, 1808 - 1893
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 28.26 × 23.02 cm (11 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
sheet: 48.74 × 36.35 cm (19 3/16 × 14 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2779
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Veerhoff Galleries, Washington, DC); Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1837
McKenney, Thomas, and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E.C. Biddle, 1837.
1933
McKenney, James L., and James Hall. The Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, vol. 1. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933, pp. 172-173.
1972
Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, pp. 160-161.
Inscriptions
upper left corner in graphite by unknown hand: 18; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A9361 / P60; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 2.50 / P
text at bottom on stone:
Painted by C. B. King / Lehman & Duval Lithrs. / PAYTA KOOTHA / A Shawanee [sic] Warrior / Philadelphia, Published by E.C. Biddle. / Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836, by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pa.
Wikidata ID
Q77009096