In-ca-tash-a-pa (Red Elk) Snake Warrior

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This painting is possibly a field work used as a study for the Walters' watercolor of the same name (CR# 296).

Karen McWhorter

Object Information
Provenance

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller

Date

ca. 1837 -- 1838

Catalogue Number

296A

Medium

Oil on paper (oval)

Inscriptions

LR: illeg. [In-ca-tash-a-pa] (Red Elk) Snake Warrior ?]. LR on mount: In-ca-tash-a-pa (Red Elk) Snake Warrior / No 88 / 36

Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 9 1/4 (19.5 x 23.0cm)
Accession Number: WA MSS 341
Subjects: Indians, Snake Indians

The artist; by descent to Louisa Whyte Norton; [Old Print Shop, New York, NY, 1947]; [Edward Eberstadt and sons, New York, NY, 1947]; [?] present owner

In-ca-tash-a-pa (Red Elk) Snake Warrior

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