Sioux Delegation
1891
Artist, American, 1848 - 1893
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 36.2 × 53.7 cm (14 1/4 × 21 1/8 in.)
mount: 46 × 61 cm (18 1/8 × 24 in.) -
Accession
2022.57.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Frank Durham Lewis [1863-1941], Newport Beach, CA; his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Lewis [1898-1980], Los Angeles; Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1934. The Kurt Koegler [1940-1996] Collection, Dubois, WY; his widow, Louise Koegler, 1996; Linda Loucks, Wilson, WY (through Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson, AZ), 2000; her daughter, Dena Loucks, Bozeman, MT, 2008; (Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson, AZ); NGA purchase, 2022.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
lower left printed in negative: Copyright; bottom right: by C.M. Bell; by unknown hand, across top of mount in black ink: 4 / 3 6 / 5 8 7 11 12 15 / 14 17 18 20; across lower center of mount: 1 2 7 10 13 16 19; lower center of mount printed in black ink: SIOUX DELEGATION. [by unknown hand in graphite: -1891] / [by unknown hand in graphite: 1.] High Hawk. [by unknown hand in graphite: 2.] Fire Lightning. [by unknown hand in graphite: 7] Little Wound. [by unknown hand in graphite: 10] Two Strike. [by unknown hand in graphite: 13] Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses. [by unknown hand in graphite: 16] Spotted Elk. [by unknown hand in graphite: 19.] Big Road. / [by unknown hand in graphite: 3] F.D. Lewis. [by unknown hand in graphite: 5] He Dog. [by unknown hand in graphite: 9] Spotted Horse. [by unknown hand in graphite: 12] American Horse. [by unknown hand in graphite: 14] Maj. Geo. Sword. [by unknown hand in graphite: 17] Louis Shangrau.] [by unknown hand in graphite: 20.] Bat Pouriea. [sic] / [by unknown hand in graphite: 4] Zaphier. [sic?] [by unknown hand in graphite: 6] [Hump] [by unknown hand in graphite: 8] High Pipe. [by unknown hand in graphite: 11] Fast Thun[der.] [by unknown hand in graphite: 15] [Rev. Chas. S. Cook.] [by unknown hand in graphite: 18] P. T. Johnson.; by unknown hand, illegible printing notes bottom right in graphite; on verso, by Dorothy Lewis, upper left in black ink: gift of / Mrs. Dorothy Lewis / Occidental College / April 12, 1934 / Photo of Sioux Delegation to Washington, 1891. / Given by F. D. Lewis to Southwest Mu [crossed out] / Mrs. Lewis & by her to Southwest Museum. / Mr. Lewis gave 10 individual photographs of / Indians in this large picture & a manu- / script account of the Sioux Situation - 1891 / [illegible] in Library.; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite circled: F; lower center: Mrs JM Lewis / 1114-15th / 6451 / English Matts / in old frame; bottom center: CMB/1082; bottom right: K-132